Nearly Half of Distressed Adults Use AI for Mental Health Care
Summary: A survey led by researchers at Tel-Hai University of Kiryat Shmona found that nearly one in three Israeli adults who use…
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Breathing Thin Air May Lower Parkinson’s Risk
Summary: A clinical trial from São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil shows that a single controlled session of intermittent hypoxia —…
How the Fetal Brain Removes Genetically Defective Neurons
Summary: A single-cell genomic study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital shows that the developing human brain…
Why Brain Scans Can’t Predict Emotion Regulation
Summary: A large-scale neuroimaging meta-analysis combining 40 fMRI datasets and 2,175 participants challenges a long-held assumption in affective neuroscience and clinical psychology.…
Study Finds CTE in 75% of Deceased NFL Players
Summary: A multi-institutional analysis led by researchers at Boston University estimates that roughly three out of four National Football League (NFL) players…
Uncovering the Brain’s Mood Switch in Bipolar Disorder
Summary: A multi-institutional research consortium led by scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens…
How Ego and Self-Image Shape Brain Synchrony
Summary: A neuroimaging study led by Aalto University reports that people with high levels of grandiose narcissistic traits show disrupted neural synchrony…
How Walking Speed Sharpens Visual Detection of Backward Motion
Summary: A visual psychophysics study led by researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) in Japan shows that human sensitivity…
Why the Left Hemisphere Controls the Right Side of the Body
Summary: A theoretical paper in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy from researchers at the University of Minnesota offers an evolutionary explanation for why vertebrate…
Wearable Vagus Nerve Devices Rewire Brains to Treat Depression
Summary: A comprehensive review in Med-X describes how advances in wearable bioelectronics are transforming vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) from a surgically implanted…
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