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·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.

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·July 29, 2026·7 min read

How Musical Improvisation Rewires Brain Activity

Musical improvisation suppresses self-critical prefrontal regions in adults and activates intrinsic reward structures in children, demonstrating that generative creativity is an innate brain mechanism.

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·July 29, 2026·16 min read

AI Automates Cognitive Testing of Wild Monkeys

Scientists developed CapuchinAI, an open-source platform combining facial recognition and touchscreens to automate cognitive testing of wild capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica.

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·July 28, 2026·8 min read

Brain-Inspired AI Uses Cognitive Maps

Researchers developed a brain-inspired AI model modeled on hippocampal mechanisms including cognitive maps and stochastic calculations.

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·July 26, 2026·6 min read

Restricted Eating Windows Aid Cognitive Function

Restricting daily eating to an 8 to 9 hour window yields cognitive improvements in spatial planning and problem-solving for older, overweight women beyond the benefits of caloric reduction alone.

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·July 21, 2026·7 min read

Digital Media Alters Cognitive Willingness

A new study proposes that digital media usage alters human focus through a mechanism called "effort recalibration."

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·July 21, 2026·8 min read

Study Maps Accelerated Brain Aging Signatures Across 9 Conditions

Measuring Predictive Age Difference (PAD), the team found that Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment showed the highest accelerated brain aging, followed by psychiatric disorders and substance addiction.

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·July 20, 2026·8 min read

How Closed-Loop BCIs Will Treat Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD

Expanding BCI technology beyond motor paralysis to psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and OCD requires shifting from static motor cortical decoding to dynamic, multi-region network tracking.

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·July 17, 2026·12 min read

AI Speech Neuroprosthesis Restores Voice to ALS Patient

Tested in an individual with advanced ALS, the interface enabled the real-time expression of 2.7 million words over two years, including vocal intonation modulation and singing, marking a transformative milestone for clinical brain-computer interfaces.

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·July 17, 2026·12 min read

Tau Buildup in PSP Affects Distant Thinking Brain Networks

Cognitive and behavioral symptoms in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) are driven by the remote circuit disruption of a shared frontoparietal architecture called the "PSP-tau network."

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·July 9, 2026·10 min read

1,000-Subject Trial Maps Brain Aging in the Real World

A technologically ambitious partnership between UCSF Neuroscape and Samsung launches the TAH-DA study, a massive remote longitudinal trial utilizing consumer wearables to predict and track cognitive decline across the adult lifespan.