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Brain Cancer Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience

·February 14, 2026·9 min read

Brain Tumor Pressure Triggers Neuron Death Pathways

It's not just the cancer that kills, it's the pressure. Scientists have discovered that physical force on the brain triggers a genetic "suicide" switch in healthy neurons.

This shows a diagram of a brain with the areas identified as part of the compulsion network highlighted.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·February 14, 2026·6 min read

Brain Signal Linked to OCD Compulsions Identified

A newly identified high-frequency brain signal in the frontal cortex appears to drive compulsive behaviors in OCD. In three severe cases, briefly disrupting this activity through targeted deep brain stimulation rapidly reduced symptoms, offering hope for more precise and responsive treatments.

This shows a couple in love with an overlay of neurons connecting them.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·February 14, 2026·5 min read

What Falling in Love Does to Your Brain

Falling in love activates the brain’s reward system much like food or addictive substances. Dopamine surges create euphoria and obsessive focus, while stress hormones intensify the experience. Meanwhile, brain regions tied to critical judgment quiet down, allowing emotional bonding to take precedence over skepticism. As relationships mature, bonding hormones reshape that initial spark into lasting attachment.

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·February 11, 2026·8 min read

AI “Mind Control” Can Stop Animal Behaviors in a Split Second

Researchers developed an advanced AI system named YORU that can identify specific animal behaviors with over 90% accuracy across multiple species. By combining this high-speed recognition with optogenetics, the team successfully demonstrated the ability to shut down specific brain circuits in real-time using targeted light.

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·January 5, 2026·5 min read

Multilingualism Calculator Reveals True Language Strengths

A new study introduces a multilingualism calculator that quantifies how multilingual a person truly is, offering a clearer alternative to vague labels like “bilingual.” By combining age of acquisition with self-rated listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills across languages, the tool generates both a multilingualism score and a language-dominance profile.

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·January 3, 2026·6 min read

Brain Blends Fast and Slow Signals to Shape Human Thought

Researchers mapped the brain connectivity of 960 individuals to uncover how fast and slow neural processes unite to support complex behavior. They found that intrinsic neural timescales—each region’s characteristic window for processing information—are directly shaped by white-matter pathways that distribute signals across the brain. Individuals with a closer match between their wiring and regional timescale demands showed more efficient transitions between behavior-linked brain states.

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·January 2, 2026·7 min read

Immune Signal Ratio May Predict Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

A long-term study has identified a potential biomarker that could help detect which patients are progressing toward more severe forms of multiple sclerosis. Researchers discovered that a high ratio of CXCL13 to BAFF indicates compartmentalized inflammation in the leptomeninges, a hallmark of progressive MS.

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·December 30, 2025·8 min read

Early Screen Time Linked to Long-Term Brain Changes, Teen Anxiety

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence. Infants with more screen time showed premature specialization in brain networks involved in visual processing and cognitive control, which later reduced flexibility during thinking tasks.

Autism Featured Neuroscience

·December 29, 2025·8 min read

Missing Brain Receptor May Hold the Key to Autism

Autistic adults show reduced availability of a key glutamate receptor, mGlu5, across widespread brain regions. This difference supports the theory that an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling may contribute to autism-related traits.

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·December 29, 2025·7 min read

Is Your Oral Bacteria Influencing Multiple Sclerosis?

High levels of the periodontal bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum may be associated with more severe disability in people with multiple sclerosis. Researchers analyzed tongue-coating samples and found that MS patients with the highest abundance of this bacteria had significantly worse scores on a standard disability scale.

This shows a person with a hearing device and the outline of a head and brain.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·December 29, 2025·5 min read

Stroke Weakens How the Brain Integrates Speech Sounds

A new study comparing stroke survivors with healthy adults reveals that post-stroke language disorders stem not from slower hearing but from weaker integration of speech sounds. While patients detected sounds as quickly as controls, their brains processed speech features with far less strength, especially when words were unclear.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·December 29, 2025·7 min read

Doubting Your Doubts Can Boost Motivation

When people facing uncertainty about an important identity goal are nudged to question the validity of their own doubts, their commitment to that goal actually increases. The research demonstrates that inducing meta-cognitive doubt—doubt about one’s doubts—can flip ambivalence into renewed motivation.

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brain research

Brain Tumor Pressure Triggers Neuron Death Pathways

Brain Signal Linked to OCD Compulsions Identified

What Falling in Love Does to Your Brain

AI “Mind Control” Can Stop Animal Behaviors in a Split Second

Multilingualism Calculator Reveals True Language Strengths

Brain Blends Fast and Slow Signals to Shape Human Thought

Immune Signal Ratio May Predict Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Early Screen Time Linked to Long-Term Brain Changes, Teen Anxiety

Missing Brain Receptor May Hold the Key to Autism

Is Your Oral Bacteria Influencing Multiple Sclerosis?

Stroke Weakens How the Brain Integrates Speech Sounds

Doubting Your Doubts Can Boost Motivation

Ultra-Processed Foods Erodes Visual Attention

Why Feeling Good is Harder than Not Feeling Bad

Astrocytes Identified as Key Target for Treating Fragile X Syndrome

Liver Talks to the Brain to Control Appetite

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