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·October 21, 2025·4 min read

What Makes Certain Memories Impossible to Forget?

Scientists are asking the public to share their most vivid memories to uncover why some moments feel as fresh as the day they happened. The project blends cognitive neuroscience with literature, examining how vivid memories are experienced, evolve with age, and even differ across centuries.

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·October 15, 2025·7 min read

Why Your Brain and Mine Agree on What We See

A new study reveals how uniquely wired human brains can perceive the world in strikingly similar ways. Researchers recorded live neural activity in epilepsy patients and found that while each person’s neurons respond differently to the same image, the relationships between those neural responses remain consistent across individuals.

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·October 14, 2025·8 min read

Exercise Boosts Women’s Brain Power More Than Ovulation Timing

While women’s reaction times and accuracy peak during ovulation, physical activity level plays a far greater role in cognitive performance. Inactive participants had reaction times around 70 milliseconds slower and made three times as many impulsive errors compared to active women, regardless of menstrual phase.

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·October 7, 2025·6 min read

Five Sleep Types Revealed: How Your Brain Wiring Reflects Rest

A new study has identified five distinct “sleep-biopsychosocial” profiles that connect how we sleep with our brain networks, mental health, cognition, and lifestyle. Using data from over 700 participants, researchers found that different sleep patterns—ranging from poor quality to resilience and short duration—each showed unique neural connectivity patterns.

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·October 5, 2025·8 min read

Misophonia Might Be a Brain Regulation Disorder

A new study shows that misophonia, strong negative reactions to certain sounds, is closely linked to cognitive and emotional inflexibility. Participants with high misophonia severity struggled to shift between emotional tasks and reported rigid thinking in daily life.

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·October 3, 2025·9 min read

How the Brain’s GPS System Falters With Age

Spatial memory — the ability to recall “where” — is one of the first cognitive skills to decline in aging and a hallmark of dementia. Researchers found that in older mice, grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex, which act like the brain’s GPS, became unstable and less precise.

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·September 28, 2025·5 min read

Every Heartbeat Shapes Thoughts and Emotions

Researchers emphasize that the heart and brain are deeply interconnected, with every heartbeat influencing cognition and emotion within milliseconds. This link helps explain why cardiovascular diseases like hypertension often coincide with mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety.

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·September 24, 2025·5 min read

Hearing Trouble in Crowds Linked to IQ, Not Ears

New research challenges the assumption that difficulty hearing in noisy places is always linked to hearing loss. Instead, the study found that cognitive ability is strongly tied to how well people process speech amid background chatter.

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·September 23, 2025·5 min read

Lactate Infusions Mimic Exercise’s Brain-Boosting Benefits

A new study shows that the brain benefits of exercise may be partly replicated with an IV infusion of lactate, the by-product of intense physical activity. Researchers found that such infusions increased pro-BDNF levels in the blood—molecules linked to brain growth and resilience—without requiring exercise.

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·September 19, 2025·5 min read

Dogs Can Classify Objects by Function, Not Just Appearance

A new study demonstrates that some highly gifted dogs can categorize objects not just by appearance, but by how they are used. When taught words like “pull” or “fetch,” these dogs later applied the concepts to brand-new toys through natural play, without training or explicit labeling.

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·September 10, 2025·5 min read

Eye Protein Levels Linked to Cognitive Decline

A new study reveals that levels of the SLIT2 protein in eye and blood samples are linked to cognitive performance in middle-aged adults. Researchers found that lower SLIT2 in vitreous humor correlated with poorer memory and global cognition, while higher SLIT2 in plasma also predicted lower cognitive scores.

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·September 7, 2025·6 min read

Artificial Sweeteners Tied to Faster Cognitive Decline

A large study of nearly 13,000 adults found that consuming high levels of certain artificial sweeteners is linked to faster declines in memory and thinking over eight years. The effect was particularly strong in people with diabetes and those under 60. Some sweeteners, like aspartame and saccharin, were strongly associated with decline, while tagatose was not.

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cognition

What Makes Certain Memories Impossible to Forget?

Why Your Brain and Mine Agree on What We See

Exercise Boosts Women’s Brain Power More Than Ovulation Timing

Five Sleep Types Revealed: How Your Brain Wiring Reflects Rest

Misophonia Might Be a Brain Regulation Disorder

How the Brain’s GPS System Falters With Age

Every Heartbeat Shapes Thoughts and Emotions

Hearing Trouble in Crowds Linked to IQ, Not Ears

Lactate Infusions Mimic Exercise’s Brain-Boosting Benefits

Dogs Can Classify Objects by Function, Not Just Appearance

Eye Protein Levels Linked to Cognitive Decline

Artificial Sweeteners Tied to Faster Cognitive Decline

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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