Neuroscience
The brain, neural systems and cognitive neuroscience.
AI in Mental Health Care: How Parallel Brain Streams Reveal Why AI Can’t Truly Understand Us
New research proves the brain runs multiple asynchronous streams—exposing why AI, even with perfect data, can never replicate human mental health insight.
The Neck, Not the Brain: How B Cells Secretly Run Anti-CTLA-4 Immunotherapy for Glioma
A KAIST study shows that anti-CTLA-4 checkpoint inhibitors work against glioblastoma only when B cells in the deep cervical lymph nodes produce IgG antibodies — not through local T-cell attack as oncology textbooks have assumed for decades.
The Brain Recalibration Effect: Why Effort Feels Expensive Now
How digital environments and AI are reshaping human psychology by redefining the cost of effort—not weakening the brain, but changing what we're willing to pay. Based on 2026 behavioral research from Nature Human Behavior and Psychology Today.
Brain Sugar Glycans Maintain Nerve Signal Speed by Stabilizing Node of Ranvier Architecture
A new study reveals that MGAT5B-synthesized branched O-mannose glycans are essential for anchoring neurofascin 186 at nodes of Ranvier, ensuring rapid saltatory conduction in myelinated axons.
Why the 'Lizard Brain' Is a Neuromyth: How a 1960s Model Still Distorts Modern Psychology
A comprehensive review of the triune brain theory's origins, its scientific refutation since the 1990s, and why it persists in therapy, education, and media despite being debunked.
128-Sensor EEG Reveals Neural Noise as Key Predictor of Autism Communication Challenges
A new study using high-density EEG demonstrates that altered aperiodic neural signals—distinct from rhythmic brain waves—serve as an objective biomarker for real-world communication difficulties in autistic youth, not general language ability.
AI in Psychology: How Passive TV Viewing Rewires the Brain Through Cognitive Offloading
A 20-year study reveals that passive TV watching during midlife triggers brain atrophy not from inactivity—but from cognitive disengagement. Meanwhile, mentally active sitting preserves neural structure. This isn't about sitting less. It's about what your brain does while it sits.
A Single Dose of Cocaine Permanently Rewires the Brain’s Reward Genome
New research reveals that a single exposure to cocaine triggers profound, long-lasting structural changes in the 3D genome of dopamine neurons — a finding that reframes how behavioral health technology should think about addiction risk, early intervention, and the myth of harmless use.
The M1 Deficit: Why Schizophrenia Isn't About Dopamine Anymore
Groundbreaking PET imaging study confirms widespread muscarinic M1 receptor deficits in living schizophrenia patients, directly linking the deficit to cognitive impairment and validating non-dopaminergic treatments like COBENFY™.
Mental Illness and Brain Evolution: The Uncomfortable Price of Smart Brains
Does our big brain come with a hidden evolutionary tax—genes linked to schizophrenia and autism? New comparative genomics shows humans aren’t alone, and dolphins tell a surprising story.
When Your Genes Light a Fire: How APOE4 Turns Brain Inflammation Into Alzheimer’s
Why carrying the APOEε4 allele doesn’t mean dementia is inevitable—and how targeting cPLA2 may prevent neuroinflammation before memory loss begins.
The Molecular Hijack: How Immune Signals Turn Brain-Building Stem Cells into Inflammatory Sentries
New research reveals that chronic inflammatory signaling via TNF-alpha redirects human hippocampal stem cells away from neurogenesis and into an active immune state, which coordinates destructive neuroinflammation but can be reversed through interferon pathway blockage.