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Science news articles cover neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, mental health, robotics, neurotechnology and cognitive sciences.

Alcohol Alters Brain Flexibility Based on Hidden Dementia Markings

Alcohol interacts differently with amyloid-beta and tau pathologies in the brain's corticostriatal circuit.

Ketogenic Diet Eases Schizophrenia and Bipolar Symptoms

The ketogenic diet is a highly feasible, safe, and potentially transformative intervention for serious mental illness.

Tears Can Be Used to Detect Dopamine Levels

A new study introduces a low-cost, laser-induced graphene electrochemical sensor designed to detect dopamine levels in human tears.

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Air Pollution Drives Parkinson’s Risk

A new study establishes a robust link between long-term air pollution exposure and Parkinson’s disease risk.

The Branching Dendrite Secret Behind Human Cognitive Superiority

A new study demonstrates that individual human cortical neurons possess the computational complexity of an entire deep artificial neural network.

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Neurology news articles cover neurology, brain cancer, traumatic brain injuries, neurosurgery, neuroanatomy, brain research and neurological disorders.

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AI Reveals Hidden Gray Matter Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis

A new study introduces an AI-driven framework that unmasks previously invisible gray matter cortical lesions in multiple sclerosis using legacy MRI scans.

Inflammation Forces Brain Stem Cells to Halt Neurogenesis

Chronic inflammation halts adult hippocampal neurogenesis by forcing neural stem cells into an active immune state.

Invisible Tire Dust Hijacks Alzheimer’s Predictor Genes

A new study links the tire rubber pollutant 6PPD-quinone (6PPD-Q) to Alzheimer's disease pathways. Using machine learning and network pharmacology, the team discovered that 6PPD-Q binds to three core predictor genes in the brain, inducing oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and synaptic disruption.

Multilingualism Subtracts Up to 13 Years from Brain Age

Multilingualism slows brain aging along a definitive gradient. Utilizing a machine-learning "brain aging clock" driven by magnetoencephalography data, the study demonstrated that speaking two, three, or four languages correlates with brains appearing 6, 7, and 13 years younger than a participant's chronological age, respectively.

TB Vaccine Flushes Alzheimer’s Amyloid

The BCG vaccine remodels the human brain’s immune environment via trained immunity. Tracking older adults over one year, researchers demonstrated that BCG enhances central nervous system immune cell responsiveness and lowers amyloid-beta levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of healthy individuals, offering an early preventative pathway against Alzheimer's disease.

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AI news articles cover science articles about artificial intelligence including ChatGPT, Bard, Dalle, neural networks, machine learning, LLMs, AGI and other AI related topics.

LLMs and Math Combine to Map Human Decision-Making

A new research framework that combines large language models (LLMs) with choice mathematics to evaluate human decision-making. By deploying LLMs to automatically interpret and code thousands of free-text participant thought justifications, the framework provides a scalable, validated methodology demonstrating that human reasoning strategies shift dynamically with a problem's structure.

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AI Writing Strips Mystery and Complexity From Stories

A new study introducing the CASPER framework reveals that AI writing models consistently strip away narrative mystery, relying on safe archetypes and tidy resolutions, proving that scaling up model sizes fails to improve character depth or capture genuine human contradiction.

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How AI Substitutes Are Replacing Genuine Human Connection

A new study warns that widespread, unmoderated use of AI chatbots among teenagers introduces severe risks of relational displacement and maladaptive relational learning, distorting social development by replacing real-world conflict resolution with frictionless, algorithmic validation.

Human Memory Limits Make AI Better at Grammar

Researchers have developed "fleeting memory transformers" that integrate human-like memory decay and a 3-to-7 word echoic buffer into neural networks, proving that restricting an AI's context window forces it to prioritize abstract grammar over literal memorization, drastically improving low-data language learning.

AI Intelligence Is Not Consciousness

As chatbots become increasingly fluent and emotionally attuned, the researchers warn of an "anthropomorphism trap," urging users to view AI as a powerful tool rather than an empathetic substitute for genuine human connection or professional care.

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Science research articles cover psychology, depression, mental health, schizophrenia, mental disorders, happiness, stress, PTSD, autism, psychiatry and therapy.

Childhood Trauma Negatively Impacts Adult Relationships

A new study demonstrates that adverse childhood experiences impair adult romantic relationship quality by disrupting daily communication and conflict management.

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Preconception Maternal Trauma Doubles Schizophrenia Risk

A new study demonstrates that preconception trauma carries a heavy transgenerational psychiatric burden. By tracking decades of health registry data from over 30,000 individuals, the team unmasked that children born to mothers who were older than age five during Nazi persecutions face an over two-fold increase in schizophrenia risk, highlighting maternal-specific epigenetic or intrauterine transmission paths.

Causal Network Mapping Isolates Core Brain Circuits of OCD

By tracing 40 cases of lesional OCD against the human connectome, the team isolated four core hubs, the orbitofrontal cortex and basal ganglia bilaterally, providing a highly accurate network target for precision rTMS therapy.

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Mediterranean Diet Boosts Psychological Well-Being Over Age 50

A new study demonstrates that adherence to a Mediterranean diet significantly boosts positive psychological well-being (autonomy, purpose, and self-realization) in people over 50. The research proved this protective nutritional effect is completely independent of socioeconomic status and successfully cushioned individuals against emotional decline during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Brain Prioritizes Spite Over Friendship

A new study demonstrates that the human brain constructs multidimensional social maps from narrative experiences using rivalries as primary anchors.

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Reading Is the Ultimate Cognitive Enhancer

A new study demonstrates that reading acts as a powerful cognitive enhancer that fine-tunes visual systems to improve face recognition, expands working memory, and sharpens reasoning. The work notes that print reading evokes greater cognitive effort than screen reading due to psychological self-regulation, and cautions against the over-simplification of educational texts.

Sleep Habits Determine If Your Genes Accelerate Alzheimer’s

Specific variants of the AQP4 gene interact synergistically with poor sleep habits to accelerate grey matter loss and alter cognitive function.

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GLP-1 Drugs Reduce Depression, Boost Stress-Calming Gut Bacteria

The GLP-1 agonist liraglutide treats depressive symptoms via a novel microbial pathway.

Glucosamine Supplement Linked to Accelerated Alzheimer’s Progression

Analyzing 12 years of deidentified patient electronic records using AI, researchers discovered that glucosamine use among individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is associated with a 25% higher likelihood of progressing to full dementia, alongside a 25% spike in mortality for established Alzheimer’s patients.