Study Finds Early Blindness Alters Pitch Perception
Summary: People who are blind from an early age show markedly better ability to discriminate small pitch differences than sighted peers. This…
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Study: LSD Microdosing Boosts Women’s Sustained Attention
Summary: A randomized, double-blind pilot study from Maastricht University shows that repeated low doses of LSD can substantially improve sustained attention and…
How Cannabis Affects Sleep Quality
Summary: A 35-year longitudinal study that followed adults from young adulthood into middle age found that both cumulative lifetime and recent cannabis…
Genetic Risk for Anorexia May Originate Outside the Brain
Summary: A new genetic study finds that people with severe anorexia nervosa are almost four times more likely to carry rare, damaging…
Higher BMI Linked to Longer Survival in Dementia Patients
Summary: A long-term analysis of more than 4,500 older adults shows that people who are overweight or obese at the time they…
Can Hearing Loss Be Predicted Years Before Symptoms Appear?
Summary: Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have shown that using detailed audiometric test results linked to genetic biobank data yields far…
How Dark Personality Traits Change Speech Patterns
Summary: A narrative psychology study from the University of Mississippi challenges the common stereotype that people with psychopathic traits speak in a…
How Neurons Store Short-Term Memories
Summary: A neurobiology team at NYU Langone Health has resolved a central puzzle of working memory by identifying a “split attractor network”…
How Microglia Rescue Dopamine Neurons in Parkinson’s Disease
Summary: Researchers at the University of Oxford have shown that a specialized subset of human microglia can precisely remove toxic alpha-synuclein aggregates…
Statins May Slow Glaucoma Progression and Lower Risk
Summary: A large real-world epidemiological study from the UC San Diego School of Medicine finds that statin medications are linked to a…
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