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Neuroscience

How the brain works and what goes wrong: studies on memory, sleep, ageing, dementia and mental health, explained without the jargon.

36 articles

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Doctors still advise healthy people against this Alzheimer’s blood test, even though at its highest levels it predicted a 78% chance of decline in 10 years

Nov 1 · 3 min read · JAMA

Scientists found that when chronic back pain flares, the brain switches on the network tied to your sense of self, the opposite of what ordinary pain does

Oct 31 · 3 min read · British Journal of Anaesthesia

Scientists estimated that about 3 in 4 former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had CTE, after correcting for which families donate brains

Oct 29 · 4 min read · JAMA Network Open

Depression does not just change how you feel. A study of 495,000 brain cells found it physically disrupts the brain’s ability to create new neurons in the region responsible for emotional memory.

Aug 28 · 9 min read · Nature

Medical Research & Innovations

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

Jul 30 · 8 min read · Lancet

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

Jul 28 · 6 min read · Nature

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

Jul 26 · 5 min read · Neuron

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

Jul 22 · 8 min read · Journal of Research in Personality

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

Jul 16 · 9 min read · Nature

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

Jul 14 · 9 min read · PNAS

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

Jul 12 · 9 min read · Nature

A decade of research claimed psychedelics increase brain entropy. A new study tested every major version of that claim and found most of them don’t hold up

Jul 11 · 8 min read · Nature

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