Why Cannabis Suddenly Triggers Panic Attacks
Summary: Neuroscientists at Northwestern University have identified a specific population of neurons that triggers acute anxiety when cannabinoids are consumed under stressful…
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Can AI Ever Be Considered Truly Conscious by Humans?
Summary: A new study from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) shows people make a clear psychological distinction between intelligent behavior and genuine subjective experience…
Comparing Your Present Appearance to Your Past Self Hurts Body Image
Summary: A new psychometric study from The Ohio State University finds that comparing our present appearance to earlier versions of ourselves harms…
Optical Illusion Reveals Blind Spot in AI and Computer Vision
Summary: A new study published in Current Biology by researchers at York University reveals a core computational difference between biological vision and…
How Your Circadian Clock Signals the Brain to Wake Up
Summary: Scientists at the University of Geneva have identified a specific neural pathway that connects the central circadian clock to the brain…
Brain Wiring Reveals Early Alzheimer’s vs Normal Aging
Summary: A large neuroimaging study led by researchers at Lund University shows that functional brain connectivity changes in fundamentally different ways during…
How Past Trauma Heightens Your Stress Response
Summary: Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a previously overlooked neural circuit in the anterior hypothalamic…
How a Computational Model Explains Color Vision Variations
Summary: Researchers at University College London have developed a new physiological model that explains why modern wide-gamut displays can produce striking color…
How Music Rewires the Addicted Brain
Summary: A pilot neuroimaging study from Anglia Ruskin University shows that active music therapy can quickly change brain activity linked to emotional…
Can Your Voice Predict How Fast Your Brain Is Aging?
Summary: A multicenter study of nearly 3,000 people published in Science Advances shows that machine-learning models can estimate a person’s biological age…
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