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·July 8, 2023·7 min read

How Deep Sleep Brain Waves Can Impact Blood Sugar Levels

Deep-sleep brain waves could be a significant factor in regulating blood sugar. The research shows that a combination of sleep spindles and slow waves can predict an increase in insulin sensitivity, subsequently lowering glucose levels.

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·May 4, 2023·8 min read

Sleeping Deeply to Remember Better: Deep Sleep Could Reduce Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s

Deep sleep, also known as non-REM slow-wave sleep, may help reduce memory loss in older adults facing a heightened burden of Alzheimer’s disease. The research indicates that superior amounts of deep sleep can act as a protective factor against memory decline in those with existing high amounts of Alzheimer’s disease pathology, potentially helping to alleviate some of dementia’s most devastating outcomes.

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·May 3, 2023·6 min read

Listen and Learn: AI Systems Process Speech Signals Like Human Brains

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can process signals similar to how the brain interprets speech, potentially helping to explain how AI systems operate. Scientists used electrodes on participants' heads to measure brain waves while they listened to a single syllable and compared that brain activity to an AI system trained to learn English, finding that the shapes were remarkably similar, which could aid in the development of increasingly powerful systems.

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·March 17, 2023·5 min read

Why We Disagree So Often

People tend to significantly overestimate how many other people hold the same conceptual beliefs of objects, events, people, concepts, and words as they do.

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·November 21, 2022·6 min read

Do You Underestimate the Impact of Being Kind?

Those who act with kindness often underestimate how much others appreciate their actions.

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·October 11, 2022·6 min read

New Study Undermines the Theory That Depressed People Are Just More Realistic

"Depressive realism", a theory that has been touted since the late 1970s, states those with depression are more realistic in how they judge the control they have over their lives. A new study says the evidence is not there to sustain this old theory.

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·October 7, 2022·6 min read

Age vs. Genetics: Which Is More Important for Determining How We Age?

Age itself plays a bigger role than genetics in gene expression and susceptibility to specific diseases as we age.

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·September 9, 2022·7 min read

Food Insecurity Has Lasting Impacts on the Brains and Behavior of Mice

Food insecurity has lasting effects on both behavior and brain function in mice. Mice who grew up with food insecurity were more flexible in uncertain situations.

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·August 24, 2022·8 min read

Sleepless and Selfish: Lack of Sleep Makes Us Less Generous

A lack of sleep impairs our basic social conscience, making us less willing to help others.

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·April 2, 2022·5 min read

Monkeys Routinely Consume Fruit Containing Alcohol, Shedding Light on Our Own Taste for Booze

Study reveals monkeys utilize alcohol from fermented fruits as a source of energy.

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·March 31, 2022·12 min read

Now Fully Complete, Human Genome Reveals New Secrets

Newly uncovered complete sequences for formally missing regions of the genome sheds new light on chromosomes and genetic diseases.

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·March 20, 2022·7 min read

Antabuse May Help Revive Vision in People With Progressive Blinding Disorders

Antabuse, a drug commonly prescribed to treat alcohol use disorder, may help to restore eyesight in people with genetic retinitis pigmentosa and other disorders associated with retinal degeneration.