Face-Like Objects Capture More Attention Than Human Gaze
Summary: Seeing faces in everyday objects—known as face pareidolia—provokes a strong attentional response, a new study finds. Researchers compared how people respond…
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How Parental Emotional Investment Boosts Children’s Success
Summary: Researchers report that children whose parents are emotionally available show stronger early cognitive control and may be better positioned for future…
Dementia Diagnoses Drop as More People Live Longer With It
Summary: A large population study of more than 25 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries shows a complex shift in dementia patterns in the…
Smoking Rates Decline in People With Major Depression and SUD
Summary: Analysis of nationally representative U.S. survey data shows large declines in cigarette smoking from 2006 to 2019 among adults with major…
Human Neural Stem Cells Restore Cognition After Chemotherapy
UCI study reveals how they alleviate ‘chemobrain’ after cancer treatments. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine report encouraging preclinical results showing…
How Scientists Reconstruct Mental Images From Brain Activity
Summary: Using electrocorticogram (ECoG) recordings to capture brain-wave patterns, researchers demonstrated that the semantic category of a mentally imagined image can be…
Why Adults Sleep Better When Sharing a Bed
Summary: Adults who usually share a bed with a romantic partner report better sleep and improved mental health measures than those who…
New Study Reveals How to Reset an Addicted Brain
Targeted stimulation of the brain’s prefrontal cortex shows promise as a treatment for addiction Could treating drug addiction one day be as…
New Study Warns of a Looming Parkinson’s Disease Pandemic
Summary: A recent review finds that demographic shifts and by-products of industrialization are driving a growing global burden of Parkinson’s disease. Source:…
How Protein Accumulation Drives Alzheimer’s Progression
Summary: Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have identified a mechanism that links loss of axonal mitochondria to harmful protein accumulation in neurons…
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