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This shows the astrocytes repairing damaged tissue in the brain.

·August 10, 2026·7 min read

Regenerative Astrocytes Repair Brain Damage

A new study study shows specialized astrocytes repair brain damage by sending cell nuclei through long cellular extensions to rebuild glial networks.

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·August 10, 2026·9 min read

Eye Tracking Reveals Where Human Reading and AI Processing Diverge

A new study compares human eye-tracking to 400+ LLMs, revealing where AI fails to explain human rereading and text integration.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 10, 2026·8 min read

Dog Brains Differentiate Human Anger, Fear, and Sadness

Happy human faces activate the canine reward system, while dog brains generate distinct activity patterns to differentiate between human anger, fear, and sadness.

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·August 8, 2026·11 min read

Prefrontal Cortex Can Block Creative Problem-Solving

The medial prefrontal cortex can block creative problem-solving by enforcing default habits, and silencing it accelerates strategy shifts.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·August 7, 2026·8 min read

Exercise Shields Dopamine Neurons in Parkinson’s

A new study shows how exercise releases muscle-derived "exerkines" that protect dopamine neurons and counter sarcopenia in Parkinson's disease.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 7, 2026·10 min read

Why Psychedelics Make Everything Feel Deeply Connected

A new study introduces "apical hypercontextualisation," explaining how psychedelics target serotonin receptors on layer V pyramidal neurons to shift brain processing from raw sensory input toward associative context.

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·August 7, 2026·6 min read

Receptor Density Shapes Whole-Brain Network Dynamics

Researchers uses The Virtual Brain to show how regional acetylcholine receptor density shapes whole-brain activity and localized sleep waves.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience Psychology

·August 7, 2026·7 min read

Early Stress Heightens Adult Anxiety

Early-life stress elevates the enzyme SETD7 in dopamine neurons, uncoiling DNA and creating a physical scar that heightens adult stress vulnerability.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 7, 2026·9 min read

How Overconfidence and Loss Aversion Co-Evolved

A new study demonstrates that human overconfidence persists because its decision-making costs make it a credible, peacock-like evolutionary signal of underlying ability.