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·July 20, 2026·10 min read

Spring Clock Change Triggers 30% Spike in Retinal Vascular Conditions

Semiannual daylight saving time transitions significantly impact the risk of developing retinal vascular disease.

Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·July 20, 2026·6 min read

Hippocampal Circuit Degradation Links Memory Loss to Apathy

A new study identifies the neural circuit linking memory impairment to apathy in patients with autoimmune limbic encephalitis.

Featured Genetics Neurology Neuroscience

·July 20, 2026·10 min read

Why Brain Damage Hits the Cerebellum

A new study explains why spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) damages specific brain regions despite widespread expression of the mutant ATAXIN-1 (ATXN1) protein.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·July 19, 2026·12 min read

Why Book Adaptations Cause Genuine Cognitive Dissonance

A study in cognitive aesthetics traces the pre-cinematic history of the "mind's eye" to explain the neurobiological mismatch that occurs during modern film adaptations, contrasting typical visualizers with the aphantasia cohort.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 19, 2026·25 min read

Is Working Memory the Subconscious Engine of Consciousness?

A new study evaluates the historical capacity debates and architectural frameworks linking working memory to conscious awareness, presenting an alternative "Spectrum Model" of human memory encoding.

Brain Cancer Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 19, 2026·13 min read

Key to Fighting Brain Tumors Lives in the Neck

The therapeutic efficacy of anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy against intracranial gliomas requires a distal B-cell and antibody response initiated inside the tumor-draining deep cervical lymph nodes.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 18, 2026·12 min read

BCI Neurofeedback Amplifies Brainwaves to Detect Micro-Errors

A new study demonstrates that non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) training accelerates perceptual learning by actively amplifying the Error Positivity (Pe) neural signature.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 18, 2026·13 min read

Heavy TV Watching Systematically Shrinks Your Brain

High-frequency midlife television consumption drives long-term cortical atrophy and white matter degradation.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·July 17, 2026·12 min read

ECT Reprograms Adult Neurons into a Youthful State

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-like stimulation induces a durable state of cellular dematuration and epigenetic nuclear reprogramming in mature, post-mitotic neurons.

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Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 17, 2026·12 min read

AI Speech Neuroprosthesis Restores Voice to ALS Patient

Tested in an individual with advanced ALS, the interface enabled the real-time expression of 2.7 million words over two years, including vocal intonation modulation and singing, marking a transformative milestone for clinical brain-computer interfaces.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 17, 2026·14 min read

Adolescent Brain Changes Temporarily Obscure Earlier Memories

Late adolescence triggers a temporary destabilization of contextual memory circuits due to the targeted remodeling of perineuronal nets (PNNs) in the retrosplenial cortex (RSP).