Tobacco and Cannabis Disrupt Brain Anandamide System
Summary: New brain imaging research finds that people who use both cannabis and tobacco have a distinctive biochemical profile linked to higher…
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How Your Brain Navigates Mental Maps vs Real Maps
Summary: When people imagine a map, their brains use different circuits than when they actually look at one. In a study of…
How Your Brain Learns Facts About Fictional Worlds
Summary: Learning new factual information about the world—such as details drawn from a fictional setting—engages brain regions that differ from those used…
How Storytelling Style Shapes Memory in the Brain
Summary: The way an event is described—whether through conceptual detail (thoughts, emotions, interpretations) or perceptual detail (sights, sounds, concrete observations)—shapes how the…
How Theta Waves Act Like Radar to Improve Visual Working Memory
Summary: New research from the Picower Institute at MIT shows that the brain’s ability to detect subtle changes in the visual scene…
Multiple Sclerosis Warning Signs Detected Years Before Symptoms
Summary: Researchers have traced the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), finding that the immune system begins to damage the brain years…
New Electronic Retinal Implant Restores Reading for AMD Patients
Summary: A landmark European clinical trial demonstrates that an electronic retinal implant used with augmented-reality (AR) glasses can restore reading vision in…
Why Do AI Chatbots Still Sound Fake?
Summary: A recent study comparing human and AI-generated conversations shows that large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude still struggle to…
Can a Disconnected Brain Still Be Conscious?
Summary: A new study reports that sleep-like slow-wave electrical activity can persist for years in surgically disconnected brain tissue of awake epilepsy…
Hidden Racial Bias in AI Emotion Recognition
Summary: A new study finds that most people do not recognize racial bias embedded in artificial intelligence (AI) training data, even when…
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