Neuroscience · July 26, 2026 · 5 min read

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 the losses, and arrives at a choice. The…

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Medical Research & Innovations

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…

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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…

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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 through which cancer cells leave their origin, travel…