Study: ADHD Medication Linked to Lower Psychosis Risk
Summary: A large, national cohort study found that treating children diagnosed with ADHD using stimulant medication (methylphenidate) before age 13 was associated…
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How Gut Signals Tell Your Brain to Stop Eating
Summary: Researchers have mapped the exact molecular “phone line” that lets the gut’s immune system signal the brain during parasitic infection. The…
How a Tiny Lipid Molecule Triggers Cold Sensation
Summary: For the first time, researchers have captured the dynamic molecular behavior of TRPM8 — the ion channel in sensory neurons that…
Paraneoplastic Brain Inflammation: When Immunity Targets Cancer
Summary: A new Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) study uncovers a striking connection between anti-cancer immunity and autoimmune brain disease. Researchers show…
How Acetylcholine Regulates Dopamine Function in the Brain
Summary: For decades neuroscientists have puzzled over how a single chemical—dopamine—can control two very different functions: reinforcing reward-based learning and energizing physical…
New Research Reveals How Aging Accelerates Cognitive Decline
Summary: Researchers have identified a previously unknown genetic disorder that combines features of premature aging (a progeroid syndrome) with severe neurological impairment…
Bacterial Infections May Speed Brain Aging, Raise Dementia Risk
Summary: A large nationwide study from Finland has found that severe, hospital-treated infections are linked to a higher risk of dementia. Examining…
Immersive Dreaming: Wake Up Feeling Fully Rested
Summary: New research shows that the subjective feeling of “deep sleep” depends as much on the quality of dreaming as on traditional…
Deepfake Medical Images Fool Even Expert Radiologists
Summary: A multicenter international study shows that neither experienced radiologists nor advanced multimodal large language models (LLMs) can consistently tell AI-generated “deepfake”…
Why Human Infants Are So Dependent
Summary: Researchers are reevaluating the long-standing view that human infant helplessness is merely a biological shortcoming. In a new paper, developmental psychologists…
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