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

AI Chip Mimicking Brain’s Reflex Center Developed

A new study details the development of a cerebellum-inspired memtransistor engineered from atomically thin molybdenum disulfide.

Study Overturns Decades of External Axon Growth Theory

A new study demonstrates that axon generation is driven by autonomous internal cellular mechanisms rather than external factors.

Study Shatters Assumptions About Brain Connectome Dynamics

A new study utilizes concurrent EEG-fMRI tracking to prove that the human connectome coordinates multiple separate, asynchronous streams of information processing in parallel.

Earliest Evidence of Right-Handedness Found

A new study identifies the oldest known evidence of "handedness" in the animal kingdom within the 550-million-year-old Ediacaran fossil Spriggina floundersi.

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Compound BA-101 Reverses Glioblastoma Chemo Resistance

A new study demonstrates that the experimental compound BA-101 reverses chemotherapy resistance in glioblastoma.

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

Myelin Damage Triggers Abnormal Brain Rhythms During Sleep

Demyelination triggers abnormal, epileptiform electrical spikes coupled with Stage 2 NREM sleep spindles and induces a severe slowing of rhythmic REM sleep oscillations, establishing overnight sleep recordings as a non-invasive biomarker for tracking MS and Alzheimer's progression.

NFL Players Face Fourfold Increase in Neurodegenerative Mortality

A retrospective cohort study of 19,824 NFL players confirms that professional football veterans face a fourfold increase in neurodegenerative mortality, including a 3.8-fold surge in all-cause dementia and Parkinson's disease.

ATP Platform Adaptive Trial Speeds Up Dementia Research

UCSF launches the historic ATP clinical trial, testing a combination of donanemab and the AADvac1 vaccine to treat pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's.

Loss of TDP-43 Strips Microglia of Their Brain-Cleaning Power

The TDP-43 protein is an essential regulator of microglial housekeeping in the developing brain.

Alcohol Alters Brain Flexibility Based on Hidden Dementia Markings

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

AI News Articles

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

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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.

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.

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

C1 Neurons Identified as Master Anxiety Switch

A new study identifies epinephrine-producing C1 neurons in the brainstem's medulla as novel, precise modulators of long-term anxiety.

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When Hearing Voices Functions as a Coping Mechanism

A new project highlights that coercive, panic-driven medical responses to voice-hearing and suicidal thoughts undermine patient trust and worsen internal distress, proving that preserving patient autonomy and listening with collaborative curiosity are essential to safe, effective psychiatric care.

Astrocyte Subtype Shifts Destabilize Emotional Brain Networks

A new study details how astrocyte subtype dynamics serve as primary drivers of depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.

Ketogenic Diet Eases Schizophrenia and Bipolar Symptoms

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

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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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.

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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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Social Media Recalibrates How the Brain Values Mental Effort

Digital media does not destroy raw cognitive capacity, but rather recalibrates our value-based decision systems. By saturating the mind with effortless, instant algorithmic rewards, digital platforms subjectively inflate the cost of mental exertion, training users to abandon deep, demanding tasks in favor of constant, low-friction digital exploration.

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