Amygdala Study Redefines Hazardous Drinking
Summary: New research shows that a brain that reacts strongly to threat — specifically, a highly sensitive amygdala — predicts different drinking…
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Spinal Cord Injury Disrupts Brain’s Volume Control
Summary: Many people with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) regain the ability to walk, yet everyday tasks such as standing still, balancing,…
Why Dull Small Talk Often Helps Build Real Connections
Why Small Talk About “Boring” Topics Often Feels Better Than You Expect Summary: That awkward elevator exchange or brief coffee-break chat you…
How Spinal Cord Injury Disrupts Brain Volume Control
Summary: For many people with incomplete spinal cord injuries (SCI), being able to walk again does not restore normal movement control. Everyday…
How the Predictive Brain Turns Categorization Into Action
Summary: For decades neuroscientists treated the brain like a passive computer: it inspects an object, matches that input to a stored template,…
Plant-Based Diet May Lower Dementia Risk
Summary: It’s not enough to simply eat more plants — the type of plant foods matters. A large, long-term study following nearly…
Estrogen Levels at Time of Trauma Predict PTSD Risk
Summary: Why do two people who survive the same traumatic event sometimes have very different outcomes—one recovering while the other develops post-traumatic…
How Toddler Habits Predict Teen Fitness
Summary: Whether a teenager becomes a couch potato or an active adolescent may be influenced long before preschool. A landmark longitudinal study…
How the Hypothalamus Remembers Exercise to Improve Endurance
Summary: We often credit muscles, lungs, and heart for fitness gains, but a new study co-led by UT Southwestern researchers shows the…
Parkinson’s Medications Trigger Gut Bacteria to Consume Levodopa
Summary: Levodopa remains the leading therapy for Parkinson’s disease, and catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitors (COMT-Is) are routinely prescribed to enhance levodopa’s effect. New research…
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