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·June 9, 2026·11 min read

Glucosamine Supplement Linked to Accelerated Alzheimer’s Progression

Analyzing 12 years of deidentified patient electronic records using AI, researchers discovered that glucosamine use among individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is associated with a 25% higher likelihood of progressing to full dementia, alongside a 25% spike in mortality for established Alzheimer’s patients.

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Featured Neuroscience

·June 5, 2026·8 min read

Early Life Diet Linked to Adolescent Intelligence

Researchers discovered discovered that sub-optimal nutrition during the first years of life correlates with lower intelligence scores during adolescence, even after accounting for external confounding influences.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 4, 2026·6 min read

Irregular Sleep Time Lowers Kids’ Memory and Language Learning Scores

A new study reveals that irregular sleep patterns lower receptive vocabulary and visuospatial memory scores in preschool children.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·June 4, 2026·9 min read

Cannabis & Tobacco Co-Use Lower Cognitive Scores in Teens

Among youth at clinical high risk for psychosis, cannabis and tobacco co-use is associated with significantly lower cognitive performance compared to healthy controls.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 3, 2026·10 min read

Octopuses Can Use Mirrors to Find Food

Octopuses can utilize mirrors to navigate and locate objects outside their direct line of sight.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 3, 2026·11 min read

Why the Brain Doesn’t Need Choices to Generate Intent

A new study rejects the traditional "sandwich model" which defines decision-making as a discrete cognitive step between perception and action.

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Featured Neuroscience

·May 29, 2026·12 min read

Why Willpower Fails and How to Restore Focus

A new neurobiological framework reveals that the constant bombardment of digital notifications exploits our evolutionary dopamine pathways, making effortful focus increasingly difficult to sustain.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·May 28, 2026·9 min read

Toggling Embodied Cognition via the Rubber Hand Illusion

Utilizing the classic "rubber hand illusion," researchers discovered that participants who scored low on scales of identity clarity and stability were highly vulnerable to the sensory trick, attempting to absorb the fake hand into their self-concept even when visual and tactile stimuli were completely out of sync.

Featured Neuroscience

·May 27, 2026·215 min read

Teenage Lipid Dysfunction May Slow Brain Processing Speed

Blood markers of dysfunctional lipid metabolism are directly associated with poorer cognitive function in 15–17-year-olds.

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·May 25, 2026·8 min read

Laughter Rewires Brain Architecture and Lowers Cognitive Load

Can laughter and play do their most brilliant work at a molecular level to accelerate human learning? A new developmental study reveals that laughter is a complex biological phenomenon that fundamentally rewires early brain architecture.

Neuroscience

·May 23, 2026·12 min read

Brain Region Discovered for Abstract Thought

A new study provides the first direct neural evidence of "compositional generalization," the cognitive capacity to recombine familiar elements into novel ideas.

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·May 18, 2026·7 min read

Thinking Longer Leads to Worse Decisions

Does overthinking ruin strategic execution? A behavioral economics study demonstrates that faster decisions in professional chess are linked to higher decision-making quality.