Latest

Weill Cornell Medicine

·June 19, 2025·7 min read

Addictive Screen Use, Not Time, Tied to Teen Suicide Risk

A major new study reveals that teens who develop compulsive patterns of digital use are at higher risk of suicidal thoughts, attempts, and mental health issues. Unlike total screen time, it’s the addictive nature of use—such as distress when not online or using screens to escape—that most strongly predicts poor outcomes.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·January 17, 2024·5 min read

COVID-19 May Infect Dopamine Neurons

A new study reveals that SARS-CoV-2 can infect dopamine neurons, potentially linking to long COVID symptoms like brain fog and depression. The research shows that these neurons enter a state of senescence, ceasing to function and causing inflammation. This discovery was unexpected, as the study initially aimed to understand how different cell types respond to the virus, but found this unique pathway only in dopamine neurons.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·November 30, 2023·6 min read

AI-Enhanced Imaging: Probing Brain’s Visual Processing

Researchers used AI to select and generate images for studying brain's visual processing. Functional MRI (fMRI) recorded heightened brain activity in response to these images, surpassing control images.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·April 24, 2023·4 min read

Antiviral Pathway a Potential New Target for Alzheimer’s Treatment

Inhibiting cGAS, an innate immune system enzyme allows neurons to become more resilient to tau fibrils. The new finding may serve in the development of new therapies to help treat Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia, two neurodegenerative disorders associated with tau build-up in the brain.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·April 20, 2023·5 min read

Cognitive Decline May Be Triggered by Astrocyte Dysfunction

A new study reveals astrocyte dysfunction may be a driver of cognitive decline and memory loss in those with dementia. This may be caused by a protein build-up in the astrocytes that appears to trigger abnormal antiviral activity that results in memory loss.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·April 3, 2023·5 min read

Tiny Eye Movements Are Under a Surprising Degree of Cognitive Control

Ocular drift, or tiny eye movements that seem random can be influenced by prior knowledge of an expected visual target, researchers report.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·March 2, 2023·4 min read

Pregnant Patients With Anxiety Shown to Have Altered Immune Systems

Pregnant women with anxiety have higher levels of cytotoxic T cells and a difference in the activity of immune markers that circulate in the blood compared to pregnant women without anxiety.

Brain Cancer Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·January 2, 2023·4 min read

New Method Precisely Locates Gene Activity and Proteins Across Tissues

A newly designed method can record gene activity patterns and the presence of key proteins in cells across tissue samples while retaining information about the cell's precise location.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 8, 2022·5 min read

Circadian Clocks Play a Key Role in Fat Cell Growth

Circadian rhythm disruption plays a critical role in weight gain, a new study reports.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·April 14, 2022·5 min read

Key Signaling Pathway in Immune Cells Could Be New Alzheimer’s Target

Tau-tangles trigger the inflammatory activation of microglia via the NF-κB pathway. Inhibiting the microglia NF-κB signaling pulled the immune cells out of their inflammatory state and reversed learning and memory problems in tau-based Alzheimer's mouse models.