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·July 10, 2025·6 min read

Brain Pathway Reveals How Pain Feels Emotionally

Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort. A new study identifies a group of neurons in the thalamus that directly links pain signals to the brain’s emotional center.

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·July 10, 2025·8 min read

How the Brain Replays and Compresses Memories

New research shows how the brain replays and organizes memories, even compressing long experiences into short, fixed-length neural sequences. Scientists recorded hundreds of hippocampal neurons in freely flying bats to study phenomena called neural replay and theta sequences, previously observed only in rodents.

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·July 9, 2025·4 min read

Psilocybin Shows Promise as Anti-Aging Therapy

Psilocybin, the active compound derived from psychedelic mushrooms, significantly delayed cellular aging and extended lifespan in a preclinical study. Researchers observed a 50% increase in the lifespan of human skin and lung cells and a 30% increase in survival in aged mice treated with psilocybin.

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·July 9, 2025·3 min read

Popular Muscle Supplement Creatine Critical for Brain Function

Creatine is well known for its role in muscle energy, but it’s also critical for brain function and development. In people with creatine deficiency disorders, supplements often fail to improve neurodevelopment because the brain’s protective barrier blocks access.

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·July 9, 2025·4 min read

Live Dance Sparks Brain Synchrony

A new study reveals that watching live dance performances synchronizes audience members’ brainwaves, reflecting shared focus and social connection. Using EEG headsets, researchers found stronger synchrony during live shows compared to watching alone, especially when performers made eye contact.

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·July 9, 2025·7 min read

Genes and Brain Wiring Team Up in Alzheimer’s Spread

A new study reveals how genes influence where and how Alzheimer’s-related tau protein spreads in the brain. By combining imaging, gene data, and advanced modeling, researchers uncovered four gene pathways that either amplify or resist tau buildup, depending on brain connectivity.

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·July 9, 2025·8 min read

How Fast Your Brain Ages Could Determine Your Future Health

A new study reveals that our organs age at different speeds, and those differences can predict future disease risk and even life expectancy. Using blood-based protein signatures from over 44,000 participants, researchers developed an algorithm to estimate the biological age of 11 organ systems.

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·July 9, 2025·3 min read

Short Video Fosters Growth-Oriented Thinking in Adolescents

A brief online intervention may help teenagers see themselves as capable of change, according to a new study. Researchers found that watching a single ten-minute video based on growth mindset principles shifted young people’s beliefs about their own personality traits.

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·July 9, 2025·5 min read

Can AI Truly Grasp Colorful Metaphors Without Seeing Color?

A new study tested how humans and ChatGPT understand color metaphors, revealing key differences between lived experience and language-based AI. Surprisingly, colorblind and color-seeing humans showed similar comprehension, suggesting vision isn’t essential for interpreting metaphors.

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·July 9, 2025·5 min read

Mindfulness Meditation Boosts Attention Across All Ages in 30 Days

A new study shows that just 30 days of daily mindfulness meditation significantly improves attentional control, regardless of age. Using precise eye-tracking methods, researchers found that mindfulness enhanced reaction speed, focus, and resistance to distractions.

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·July 9, 2025·5 min read

Perception or Reality? Rethinking How Polarized We Really Are

A new study challenges the notion that society is as polarized as many believe, revealing that perceptions of division often stem from the consensus within one’s own social circles. Researchers developed a novel method to distinguish actual opinion divergence from how polarized people feel society is.

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·July 9, 2025·6 min read

Artificial Light Undermines Health: Aligning Modern Life With Biological Clocks

New research reveals that artificial light at night disrupts more than sleep, affecting immune function, metabolism, mood, and brain health. Circadian rhythms, finely tuned over millions of years, regulate critical biological processes and can be thrown off by modern lighting and irregular schedules.