How Observational Learning Reduces Cognitive Bias
Summary: Observing how others make decisions can help people make better decisions themselves. Source: City University London New research from the Business…
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Parkinson’s Disease: How Cellular Recycling Fails in the Brain
Summary: Researchers have found that Endophilin A1 — a gene linked to higher Parkinson’s disease risk — interferes with the brain’s ability…
Noninvasive Drug Delivery Across the Blood Brain Barrier
Summary: Applying rapid short pulses of ultrasound can non-invasively deliver liposomes directly to the brain by temporarily opening the blood-brain barrier. Source:…
How Sleep Problems Increase Teen Depression Risk
Summary: Emerging evidence indicates that delayed circadian rhythms and sleep disturbances may precede and contribute to adolescent depression, rather than simply being…
COVID-19 Could Infect Dopamine-Producing Neurons
Summary: A recent study reports that SARS-CoV-2 can infect midbrain dopamine neurons and trigger cellular senescence, a state in which cells stop…
How Brain Cells Change in Alzheimer’s Disease
Summary: Researchers used a new technique called STARmap PLUS to track and map changes in tau and amyloid‑β proteins and the surrounding…
Pareidolia: Why Your Brain Sees Faces in Everyday Objects
Summary: Face pareidolia—the tendency to perceive face-like patterns in inanimate objects—is a perceptual effect that arises when visual systems tuned for extracting…
How Oxytocin Shaped Human Social Cooperation
Summary: New genomic analyses illuminate the genetic variations linked to social behavior differences among modern humans, archaic humans, and other primates. Source:…
Impaired Clotting Linked to Higher COVID-19 Risk
Summary: Higher levels of plasmin — an enzyme that dissolves blood clots — may increase the infectivity and severity of SARS-CoV-2 by…
Study Finds High School IQ Predicts Greater Adult Alcohol Use
Summary: A recent analysis of long-term data finds that higher IQ scores measured in high school are linked to greater odds of…
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