Medical Research & Innovations · July 30, 2026 · 8 min read

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can’t think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged

Since the first wave of long COVID cases emerged in 2020, patients have described a remarkably consistent set of experiences. A profound flatness where motivation used to be. Words that…

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Neuroscience

New research finds a single dose of LSD lowers stress and improves problem solving ability, but not in the way scientists expected. The effects showed up a week after the drug wore off

The conversation around psychedelics and mental health has mostly focused on what happens during the experience. Patients in clinical trials describe profound…

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Researchers told 41 people to breathe differently while making risky decisions. A slow exhale physically changed which risks they were willing to take

There is a standard assumption in neuroscience about where decisions come from. The brain evaluates the options, weighs the potential gains against…

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Researchers finally quantified the hair loss risk that GLP-1 drug users have been reporting for two years, and found it is 37 to 68 percent higher than on comparable medications

GLP-1 receptor agonists have become some of the most prescribed medications in the world in a remarkably short period. Ozempic and Wegovy,…

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The popular theory that highly sensitive people detect more sensory information than others just ran into a laboratory that found no evidence it is true

The concept of the highly sensitive person has become one of the most widely adopted frameworks in popular psychology. Introduced by psychologist Elaine Aron in the 1990s, it describes a…