How Exercise Boosts Hormone Delivery to the Brain
Summary: Physical exercise triggers tiny particles in the blood known as extracellular vesicles (EVs) to act as temporary transport shuttles for important…
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New Study: Mild COVID May Alter the Brain — How Long?
Summary: Preliminary findings suggest even mild COVID-19 infection may have lasting effects on brain health and cognitive function. Source: The Conversation After…
Maternal Herpes During Pregnancy Linked to Higher Autism Risk
Autism Risk Linked to Maternal Genital Herpes During Early Pregnancy Summary: A study finds an association between maternal genital herpes infection during…
Choosing the Right Dog Is Like Dating: Find Your Match
Summary: New findings from Indiana University suggest ways animal shelters can refine the adoption process to match people with the right dog…
AI Predicts Early Cognitive Decline That May Signal Alzheimer’s
Summary: Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can accurately forecast cognitive decline that may lead to Alzheimer’s disease. The model uses…
How Eye Movements Set the Speed Limit of Vision
Summary: The speed of your rapid eye movements—saccades—determines how fast an object can move before it effectively disappears from conscious sight. Stimuli…
Why Women Find Breathing Harder During Exercise
Summary: New research indicates that, on average, women must exert more effort to breathe during intense exercise than men. These findings clarify…
Are Prudence, Impatience, and Laziness Contagious?
Summary: New research shows that people unconsciously adopt others’ tendencies toward prudence, impatience, or laziness. Source: PLOS People tend to unconsciously copy…
Why Memories Fade Like Old Photographs
Summary: Low-level visual details of experiences—such as color saturation and brightness—tend to dim in memory over time, even as negative emotion can…
How Exercising to Music Alters Your Brainwaves
Summary: Researchers report that listening to music while exercising shifts brainwave patterns, reducing focused attention on bodily sensations but increasing energy, arousal…
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