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What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·July 16, 2026·11 min read

Brain Can Process Two Conversations at Once

A new study demonstrates that the human brain can simultaneously process two competing conversations during attentional shifts.

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Autism Featured Neuroscience

·July 16, 2026·12 min read

Brain Activity Noise Linked to Autism Communication

A new study demonstrates that altered aperiodic background signals on high-density 128-channel EEGs correlate with functional communication challenges in autistic youth.

This shows neurons in red and blue, representing heat and cold sensations.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 16, 2026·10 min read

Single Neural Population Detects Both Warm and Cool Sensations

A new study demonstrates that non-painful thermal perception is governed by a single population of bidirectional neurons rather than separate warm and cool receptors.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 16, 2026·11 min read

Brain Sugars Essential for Maintaining Nerve Signal Speed

Branched O-mannose glycans synthesized by the brain-specific enzyme MGAT5B are essential for maintaining the narrow architecture of the nodes of Ranvier.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 16, 2026·13 min read

Long Sleep Hours Link to Elevated Alzheimer’s Blood Protein

A new study utilizes Restricted Cubic Splines to establish a robust non-linear association between long sleep duration and elevated plasma p-tau181.

Autism Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·July 15, 2026·11 min read

Gene Therapy Reverses Severe Traits of Fragile X Syndrome

The therapy restored FMRP expression in crucial brain regions, resulting in reduced audiogenic seizure susceptibility, normalized sensory hyperactivity, and complete reversal of elevated low-gamma EEG power.

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Featured Neuroscience Psychology

·July 15, 2026·11 min read

Loneliness Directly Causes Poor Mental Health

By integrating observational analysis with sibling comparisons and Mendelian randomization, the cross-continental study isolates loneliness as an independent driver of systemic health decline and multi-condition physical frailty, establishing personal emotional disconnection as a high-priority public health emergency demanding integrated policy intervention.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 15, 2026·11 min read

Aligning Brain Waves and Machine Learning

By explicitly linking reinforcement-driven human neuroplasticity with gradient-based decoder optimization, the framework unifies biological trial-and-error learning with mathematical machine learning loops.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 15, 2026·14 min read

Blood Test Accurately Predicts Five-Year Alzheimer’s Risk

The analysis reveals that asymptomatic individuals presenting with very high baseline p-tau217 concentrations face an absolute 38% risk of developing cognitive impairment within 5 years, escalating to 78% within 10 years.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·July 15, 2026·13 min read

Most Neurons Are Multi-Tasking Generalists

A new study utilizes International Brain Laboratory data across 43 mouse cortical regions to prove that multi-purpose generalist neurons constitute the overwhelming rule of mammalian brain architecture.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 15, 2026·12 min read

Centered Daydreaming Reduces Core Limitations of AI Memory

Centered Daydreaming alters the network's processing to analyze local variations relative to a running baseline average rather than absolute pixel inputs.