Brain/Neuroscience
Déjà vu: ‘A peek into how the memory system works when it goes a little off-kilter’
It’s an eerie feeling: You walk into a place you know you’ve never been before but are overwhelmed by a ...
Does gut bacteria ‘control’ your brain? Exploring connections between our microbiomes and mental health
Looking after the multitudes of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms living in our guts could help us think better and ...
Low serotonin is not a cause of depression? Controversial study spawns misinformation about the effectiveness of SSRIs
The media exploded when a paper declared that low serotonin doesn’t cause depression— something many scientists had been saying for ...
Video: Why and how did consciousness evolve?
In a recent episode of Closer to Truth, Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed University of California cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman on ...
Cancer vaccine progress: CRISPR-developed shot stops brain tumors in mice
Cancer of the brain and nervous system accounted for over 250,000 deaths worldwide in 2020 ...
Autism diagnoses tripled in the 2000s. More accurate assessments, genetics and environmental factors likely culprits
New research suggests doctors have improved at identifying autism, especially among children with average or above-average IQs. But that doesn't ...
6-9 minutes: Daily vigorous exercise for even a short time helps insulate against cognitive decline, study finds
What if you could look at all the things you do daily — walking from room to room, preparing a ...
Squid and human brains: Despite 500 million years of divergent evolution, their complex brain development remains similar
Squid and human brains develop the same way despite diverging 500 million years ago ...
Fading memory from early dementia? Deep brain stimulation might help
Researchers are studying whether deep brain stimulation could help people with Alzheimer's hold on to their memory longer, and now ...
Are you good at perceiving other people’s perspectives? Women score higher than men on ‘cognitive empathy’ test
Females score higher than males on the widely used 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' Test, study shows ...
Brain implants help many paralyzed people move again — but progress is slow
Brain implants have begun to restore functions, but advances are slow. But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk ...
Can mindfulness and exercise help slow aging brains? Study puts common wisdom to the test
Researchers looked at how mindfulness and exercise, apart and together, affected aging brains. The results were disappointing ...
‘This is a game changer’: How psychedelics could break addictive behavior and reduce violence — if we can study their effects accurately
Psychedelics could change human evolution: The reality of what psilocybin is and what it does within the human body is ...
Viewpoint: How genetics impact human intelligence
[H]uman intelligence and common sense Is influenced by genetics: If we follow the pattern we can see that it all ...
COVID and cognition: How severe cases can age your brain
In a recent article published in Nature Aging, researchers found that severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) triggers aging-like changes in ...
How Artificial Intelligence can predict severity of psychiatric disorders
AI uses genetics to predict psychiatric disorders: The AI deep learning model can also predict the severity of multiple disorders ...
Why are walnuts considered a new ‘brain food’?
A new clinical trial of undergraduate students during their university studies has shown positive effects of walnut consumption on self-reported ...
Why do some drugs trigger a deadly brain disease? The answer is in our genetic code
Medicines that reshape or tamp down immune responses may be life-changing for patients with cancer and autoimmune disorders, but in ...
Safety concerns raised about Lecanemab, one of the first drugs to slow Alzheimer’s disease
The experimental drug lecanemab shows “potential” as an Alzheimer’s disease treatment, according to new Phase 3 trial results, but the ...
Minding the climate: How studying the brain can help us solve the world’s environmental crisis
Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime is a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She looks at brains. Over the course of ...
Zimbabwe has just 19 psychiatrists for 15 million people. Here’s how they’re transforming mental health care — and what the US could learn from this paradigm
When psychiatry and other forms of professional mental health care are not accessible, people suffer in silence or turn to ...
COVID survivors show lingering brain abnormalities up to 6 months after infection
A specialized type of MRI showed lingering brain abnormalities in patients up to 6 months after they recovered from COVID-19 ...
Do you know a second alphabet? Additional written languages give bilingual people’s brains a boost
New research suggests that the brain of a bilingual person who knows two alphabets is different from that of a ...
Childhood obesity associated with brain abnormalities, study shows
Children with overweight or obesity appeared to have abnormalities in the brain that could affect executive functioning, an analysis of ...
Junk food could interfere with cognitive function, as well as increase obesity and illnesses
Ultra-processed foods have lots of added and unhealthy ingredients, such as sugar, salt, fat, artificial colors and preservatives. Examples include ...
‘Quirks of our reptilian brains’: Why looming deadlines can cause paralyzing anxiety
Do you ever get so overwhelmed with schoolwork that all you can do is curl up on the couch and ...
‘Mind-controlled wheelchairs’: Helping paralyzed people navigate the world with just their thoughts
Three people with paralysis of all four limbs used their thoughts to steer a wheelchair through a cluttered room with ...