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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience often involves research from numerous science genres including brain science, psychology, neurology, computer science, artificial intelligence, big data, statistics, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, linguistics, electrophysiology, biology, anatomy and neurobiology.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·June 24, 2026·10 min read

Pop Music Echoes a Growing Culture of Vices

An extensive computational analysis of over 380,000 songs spanning 1960 to 2023 has revealed that popular music lyrics have become increasingly negative, showcasing a steady historical decline in language related to moral virtues like care and decency, alongside a marked rise in themes of harm, cheating, and anger.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·June 24, 2026·7 min read

Bodily Inflammation Shapes the Brain and Behavior

A new study reveals bodily inflammation alters brain function, driving the profound sickness behavior and depression experienced during both acute infections and chronic autoimmune diseases.

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·June 24, 2026·11 min read

Body Clock Dictates Morning Calorie Burning

A new study has proven that the human endogenous circadian clock independently drives a 24-hour rhythm in diet-induced thermogenesis, causing calorie burning after meals to peak in the biological morning and hit its lowest baseline in the biological evening.

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·June 24, 2026·11 min read

The Neural Architecture of Evolutionary Reversals

A functional whole-brain imaging study reveals that blind Mexican cavefish evolved an inverted behavioral response to light by repurposing existing neurons in the posterior tuberculum and modifying conserved dopamine pathways, rather than growing entirely new neural networks.

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·June 24, 2026·7 min read

New Platform Accelerates VR Cybersickness Research

A new study has bypassed traditional lab bottlenecks by collecting cybersickness data from 250 remote Meta Quest users in just 15 days, aiming for a 2,000-person cohort to map individual tracking differences.

Autism Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·June 24, 2026·10 min read

Dogs May Bridge the Autism Drug Discovery Gap

Shank3 mutant laboratory Beagles could bridge the 90% failure gap in autism drug development, as their uniquely co-evolved social architecture allows them to mirror human-like social withdrawal, gaze aversion, and sensory changes far better than rodent models.

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Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·June 24, 2026·7 min read

Daytime Light Linked to Lower Dementia Risk

Average daytime light exposure above 1,000 lux reduces dementia risk by 16%, and that getting less than 42 minutes of bright daily light is a stronger predictor of dementia than six traditional clinical risk factors.

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·June 24, 2026·9 min read

Single Neurons Navigate Bilingual Brains

Bilingual brains store concepts on a single, shared semantic map inside the hippocampus, using distinct clusters of language-specific neurons to navigate the map from different perspectives for seamless linguistic switching.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·June 24, 2026·11 min read

Personalized fMRI Scans Supercharge TMS Depression Treatment

Using personalized fMRI resting-state scans to target accelerated TMS improves depression response rates to 80% compared to 60% for standard scalp targeting, offering a fast, one-week therapeutic timeline for treatment-resistant patients.

Brain Cancer Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·June 23, 2026·11 min read

GABA Immune Pathway Drives Female Brain Cancer Growth

Researchers have identified a major sex-specific mechanism in glioblastoma, proving that the neurotransmitter GABA selectively reprograms granulocytic immune cells to shield tumors in females, and that blocking this GABA pathway significantly improves survival outcomes exclusively in female models.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·June 23, 2026·8 min read

Heart Rates Align in Real-World Social Interactions

Researchers track 72 students in NYC to prove heart rates synchronize during close proximity and shared attention, serving as a real-world marker for social engagement.

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·June 23, 2026·10 min read

Human Memory Limits Make AI Better at Grammar

Researchers have developed "fleeting memory transformers" that integrate human-like memory decay and a 3-to-7 word echoic buffer into neural networks, proving that restricting an AI's context window forces it to prioritize abstract grammar over literal memorization, drastically improving low-data language learning.

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