Neuroscience
The brain, neural systems and cognitive neuroscience.
Challenging the Narrative: What New Brain Tissue Studies Reveal About Youth Football and Tau Buildup
A postmortem study of 174 older men found no association between amateur youth football and phosphorylated tau in hippocampal CA2. Here is what the result does—and does not—tell us about aging, CTE and brain research.
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Visualizing Respiration: What Neuroscience Mental Health Research Reveals About Interoception
A closer look at research on breath-responsive visual and spatial-audio feedback, interoceptive awareness, flow, and the limits of current mental-health evidence.
How Favorite Music Engages the Brain’s Opioid System
A PET-fMRI study links pleasurable music with changes in brain opioid-receptor measures, while leaving the precise mechanism and pain-relief effects uncertain.
Five Distinct Brain Subtypes of Depression: What This Neuroscience Mental Health Research Reveals
A University of Helsinki MEG study reports five depression-related connectivity patterns in its sample, highlighting neural variation without defining new diagnoses.
ADHD, Dopamine, and the Limits of the “Reset” Story
A comprehensive, sourced report separating ADHD dopamine signaling from simplistic low-dopamine explanations and evaluating dopamine-detox claims without presenting them as treatment.
What Cannabis Actually Does to a Developing Mind
Three research-led studies map how cannabis touches memory, reward and mental health in young users — and why heavy, problematic use and moderate use tell very different stories.
Cursive, Cognition, and the Day I Got to Write Like an Adult
A second-grade classroom milestone, the neuroscience of handwriting, and why the small triumph of cursive might matter more than we think.
Beyond Fetal Brain Development Nutrients: How a Single Day of Maternal Inflammation Selectively Wrecks Male Embryos
A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory study in mice shows maternal immune activation at embryonic day 12.5 damages placental spongiotrophoblasts and derails development in males only—before sex hormones even enter the picture. Here's what that means for our understanding of what can affect fetal brain development.
The AI Impact on Human Psychology: Reading the Brain Without Opening the Skull
Cheese3D uses AI-powered computer vision to decode mouse facial expressions with EEG-level accuracy — and raises a provocative question about reading human mental states without electrodes.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Sleep: What Your Brain Actually Does While You're Out Cold
A deep dive into what cognitive neuroscience reveals about brain activity during sleep — from EEG discoveries to the restorative work of NREM and REM stages.
Your Brain on Loneliness: What Neuroimaging Reveals About the Isolated Mind
A new Neurology study maps how social isolation physically reshapes brain structure, weakens cognition, and raises dementia risk in older adults — and what we might do about it.
Rethinking the Mind: How Dual Neural Lineages Shape AI Impact on Human Psychology
Explore how recent discoveries of dual brain development lineages reshape our understanding of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and human psychology.