Medical Research & Innovations · July 21, 2026 · 9 min read

A new study found that the sleep loss in Alzheimer’s is not caused by plaques. It is caused by the brain’s own immune response to them, and researchers found a way to reverse it

Sleep disruption is one of the most devastating and least discussed symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. While the public conversation about the condition focuses almost entirely on memory loss, the sleep…

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Medical Research & Innovations

More than 90% of cancer deaths come from metastasis. A new study found that the act of spreading trains cancer cells to spread better, and identified a druggable target at the center of the process

More than 90 percent of cancer deaths are not caused by the original tumor. They are caused by metastasis, by the process…

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Neuroscience

Scientists gave people psilocybin in two different rooms and scanned their brains a week later. The rooms produced measurably different brains

The field of psychedelic-assisted therapy has spent the last decade trying to determine how psilocybin works. The question has focused almost entirely…

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Neuroscience

The brain does not wait for sensory information to reach the frontal cortex before making a decision. New recordings show it starts far earlier, and no existing model predicted this

For decades, neuroscience assumed the brain makes decisions at the top. New research found it starts at the bottom. The standard model…

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Neuroscience

Researchers scanned 110 women before and after pregnancy and found that a second pregnancy completely rewires different brain networks than the first one did

Every mother of two children knows that the second child felt different from the first. The pregnancy felt different. The postpartum period felt different. The way attention split between a…