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·August 3, 2026·8 min read

AI Analyzes Sleep Data to Predict Cognitive Decline and Health

A new study shows an AI model extracting hidden sleep study signals to predict heart disease, cognitive decline, and double mortality risk.

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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·August 3, 2026·8 min read

Brain Turns Hearing Inward During REM Sleep

A new study reveals that during REM sleep, the brain turns its listening inward, suppressing external sounds while intensifying processing of heartbeats.

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·August 3, 2026·5 min read

Songs You Imagine Can Be Decoded Directly From Your Brain

Relative pitch sequence of imagined melodies can be decoded from intracranial brain signals to reconstruct songs.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 1, 2026·8 min read

Why Gaining Free Time Unexpectedly Makes People Late

Unexpectedly gained free time subjectively expands in our minds, causing people to perform tasks slower and arrive late.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·August 1, 2026·7 min read

Psychedelics and Ketamine Rewire Brain Immune Signals in Depression

Ketamine and psychedelics share a neuroimmune signaling pathway involving IL-15 and IL-7, offering blood-based biomarkers to predict antidepressant response.

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Featured Neuroscience

·August 1, 2026·7 min read

Community Gatherings Halve Cognitive Disability Risk in Older Adults

Community gathering places cut four-year cognitive disability risk in half for older adults without regular exercise habits.

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·July 31, 2026·8 min read

TRF2 Preserves Muscle Stem Cell Identity and Drive Repair

The telomere protein TRF2 regulates non-telomeric G-quadruplex DNA structures in muscle stem cells to preserve cell identity, drive muscle regeneration, and slow Duchenne muscular dystrophy progression.

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·July 31, 2026·7 min read

Protein Restriction Improves Metabolism and Longevity

Researchers demonstrates that dietary protein restriction improves metabolism, elevates FGF21, and extends lifespan, challenging current high-protein dietary trends for sedentary adults.

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Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience

·July 31, 2026·6 min read

Mitochondrial Plaques in Alzheimer’s Brains Discovered

Researchers identified mitochondrial plaques, an intracellular form of pathology that forms early in Alzheimer's disease and offers a new target for treatment.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·July 31, 2026·10 min read

AI Models Analyze Children’s Speech to Predict Future Mental Health

NLP models analyzing the speech style of children aged 9 to 13 predict future mental health disorders six years later better than human expert panels.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 31, 2026·7 min read

Ketamine Reshapes Neural Networks and Neuroplasticity

Ketamine triggers a corticosterone-FKBP51 signaling pathway in female mice that prompts microglia to clear extracellular matrix and enhance synaptic plasticity, an immune-driven mechanism absent in males.

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·July 30, 2026·8 min read

Teaching AI to “Listen” for Disease

An international initiative establishes the first consensus framework for vocal biomarkers, creating standardized definitions to accelerate voice-based disease diagnostics.