Neuroscience
The brain, neural systems and cognitive neuroscience.
You’re Already Hosting a Guest: The Silent Toxoplasma in Your Brain
Could a parasite living in nearly every third human quietly nudge risk, mood, and even mental health? The evidence from mice is chilling—and the human story isn’t over yet.
Cursive Is Gone. So Is Your Brain’s Quiet Conversation With Itself.
The loss of cursive handwriting isn’t just nostalgia—it’s the erosion of a neural ritual that wired memory, focus, and thought. Here’s what we’re really giving up.
Your Baby’s Head Size Was Written in Your Blood at 8 Weeks
A collaborative study by Swansea University and Lodz Medical University bypassed finger-length digit ratio proxies to prove that maternal estrogen levels at 6-8 weeks of pregnancy directly predict larger newborn head circumference, with stronger effects in males who pay a long-term evolutionary penalty in cardiovascular and reproductive fitness.
BCG Vaccine Shows Promise in Remodeling Brain Immunity to Clear Alzheimer’s Amyloid
A new one-year study reveals the BCG vaccine, typically used for tuberculosis, may induce trained immunity in the central nervous system, helping to clear toxic amyloid-beta in healthy older adults before Alzheimer's pathology develops.
Why Your Brain Remembers Enemies Better Than Friends — the Neuroscience of Social Rivalry Mapping
A University of Osaka fMRI study using SUITS episodes reveals that the brain encodes antagonistic relationships far more strongly than friendly ones, with rivalries anchored in the left anterior supramarginal gyrus and right medial prefrontal cortex — implications for AI social modeling.
When Brains Sync Up: How Shared Moments Rewire Your Child’s Mind
Why emotional synchronization between parent and child isn’t just “good parenting”—it’s neural bedrock for resilience, empathy, and lasting well-being.
Behind the Mood Swings: Mapping Bipolar Disorder's Disrupted Brain Wiring
A new meta-analysis uses graph theory to reveal structural white matter network deficiencies in individuals with bipolar disorder, shedding light on the brain's reduced connectivity and its relation to clinical symptoms.
Why Sleep Resets the Brain: The Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis in Humans
A deep dive into how sleep restores neural balance by pruning excess synaptic connections, supported by human PET imaging evidence of SV2A accumulation during sleep deprivation.
Preaddiction Isn't About Ignorance—It's About the Brain Losing Its Grip on What It Knows
Preaddiction may not be about ignorance—it’s about the brain’s diminishing ability to translate knowledge into action, even when consequences are clearly understood. A 2026 Yale computational study reveals that people with heavy substance use histories retain learning capacity but lose the reliability of applying it, reframing addiction as a disorder of decision-making, not willpower.
You Can Sleep Just One Half of Your Brain — And Scientists Just Made It Happen in Awake Mice
A breakthrough study shows that targeted optogenetic stimulation can replicate the restorative power of sleep in isolated brain regions — without knocking the animal unconscious.
Your Brain and AI Predict Words the Same Way — Here’s Why That Changes Everything
A peer-reviewed neuroscientific study using M/EEG reveals that the human brain and AI language models share identical predictive coding architectures, operating with millisecond-level parallel processing to anticipate linguistic structures — challenging the notion that AI merely mimics human cognition and suggesting a fundamental convergence in neural and algorithmic design.
Your Kid’s Brain Isn’t Done Yet—Here’s How to Help Them Navigate the Minefield
Neuroscience reveals why even the brightest, most well-raised teens make catastrophic decisions—and how parents can build judgment, not just rules, before the prefrontal cortex matures at 25.