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·June 22, 2026·10 min read

Infant Screen Exposure Linked to Lower Future Working Memory

A new study tracks children from age 1 to 10.5, revealing that screen time during infancy and school-entry age uniquely correlates with reduced academic performance and weakened working memory years later, highlighting critical windows of developmental vulnerability.

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·June 21, 2026·11 min read

Trauma Therapy Reverses PTSD in Psychosis Patients

A new study reveals that an integrated Trauma-Focused CBT for psychosis (TF-CBTp) safely and effectively eliminates PTSD diagnoses for 50% of patients.

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·June 14, 2026·11 min read

Psilocybin Unlocks Lost Memories in an Alzheimer’s Patient

A new study demonstrates that a single dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms temporarily restored spontaneous speech, motor independence, and urinary continence in an 80-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer's disease.

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·June 11, 2026·10 min read

Sleep Deprivation Blocks Social Memory Access

Sleep deprivation impairs the retrieval of social memories while leaving the underlying physical traces completely intact.

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·June 11, 2026·10 min read

Hypothalamic Histamine Waves Open and Close Memory Access

Slow, spontaneous fluctuations in hypothalamic histamine neurons gate moment-to-moment memory accessibility.

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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.

Neuroscience

·June 8, 2026·9 min read

Female Brain Uses Unique Molecular Tag to Form Fear Memories

Findings prove that identical memories are constructed via disparate biological pathways, establishing a mandate for sex-tailored therapeutic interventions for trauma and memory disorders.

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·June 8, 2026·8 min read

Brain Stimulation Offsets Sleep Deprivation Memory Loss

Inducing local, sleep-like neural activity in awake mice can completely offset the cognitive damage of sleep deprivation.

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·June 5, 2026·9 min read

Flu Drugs May Slow Cognitive Decline

Can repurposing common influenza medications stop the clock on chronic viral brain aging and memory loss? A translational neuro-immunology study identifies a novel biological mechanism linking glycan sugar degradation to cognitive decline in people living with HIV.

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·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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·June 3, 2026·9 min read

Air Pollution Degrades Semantic Memory

Long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) is directly associated with lower semantic memory.

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·June 3, 2026·10 min read

Hippocampal CA1 Hub Safeguards Past Knowledge

New research unmasks a "memory switchboard" deep within the hippocampus that allows the brain to reuse cells to store different memories without overwriting them.