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| Aug 25, 2026 | Hunter-gatherers sleep no longer than we do: peer-reviewed article says industrialization moved timing, not hours | Average daily sleep duration (hours) across selected mammalian and vertebrate species grouped by ecological category.
Sleep is the central core of human health and wellness, which is surrounded by two concentric circles that illustrate the ... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Blood-filtering therapy for high cholesterol also lowered PFAS forever chemicals and plastics in people, study finds | Reduction of cholesterol after apheresis. Using Raman spectroscopy, the levels of cholesterol and associated lipids in patient blood were measured before and after apheresis.
Reduction of different PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | New review proposes gene-edited Beagles as a complementary model for autism research | Evaluation of potential drugs in autism-associated Shank3 mutant dogs.
Emerging gene-edited dog models for autism spectrum disorder
More than 90 percent of autism drugs fail in trials, and a new review argues dogs bred to read human faces c... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | A single broken gene reads aloud in several dialects across one Portuguese island family | When the family tree outsmarts the diagnostic manual
The number of affected individuals in PIC families also segregating severe ASD/ID. ASD = autism spectrum disorder; BP = bipolar disorder; ID = intellectual disability; NDD = neurodevelopm... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | How much of a brain-protecting drug reaches a woman’s brain shifts with her hormonal cycle, study finds | Sex-dependent davunetide concentrations over time in humans.
Methodology and experimental details.
Intranasal bioavailability is estrous-cycle regulated: Davunetide as a case study
Intranasal davunetide reached female mouse brains in far hi... |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Introducing the criticome, the window of becoming in which the developing brain takes in what it carries for life | Criticome: the window of becoming. Five categories of experiential information (sensory, motor, social, cultural, and environmental) become integrated into developing neural architecture during critical periods.
Understanding the criticome.... |
| May 5, 2026 | How strokes that trigger psychiatric symptoms are guiding new approaches to brain stimulation therapy | Causal network mapping can be computed using different inputs. Causal network mapping can use several spatially defined sources of evidence, including focal lesions, studies of non-lesional disorders, DBS targets, and TMS targets.
From lesi... |
| May 5, 2026 | Microplastic burden in the human brain linked to stroke and dementia: apheresis emerging as the first plausible removal | The human microplastic burden, visualized. Decedent brain tissue now carries seven to thirty times the concentration found in liver or kidney.
The human microplastic burden and brain health. Schematic overview of selected sources, exposure ... |
| Apr 7, 2026 | New research identifies enzyme driving neuroblastoma and shows inhibitor collapsed tumor growth in mice | Schematic model illustrating the NO-mTOR signaling axis in neuroblastoma. Under basal/pathological conditions (left panel), and nNOS inhibition (right panel).
Effects of the BA-101 treatment and nNOS silencing on the nNOS activity and NO le... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Autonomic dysfunction unmasked as a hidden driver of treatment-resistant depression | A spectral domain comparison of the Low Frequency area and Respiratory Frequency area (Parasympathetic and Sympathetic monitoring) method and the Low Frequency and High Frequency (Autonomic Nervous System monitoring) method.
Is it really tr... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Neuroscientist from US-Mexico border dismantles science's class problem from the inside | Christian Cazares, PhD, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Colors of the Brain mentors and scholars, 2023.
Christian Cazares: Confronting science’s class problem
UCSD postdoctoral fellow funds students, removes GRE barriers, and deve... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Cannabis, psychedelics, and the profit motive that blocks psychiatric drugs from reaching patients | Gabriella Gobbi, MD, PhD, McGill University, Canada.
Dr. Gabriella Gobbi paddling on the Adriatic Sea at dawn.
Gabriella Gobbi: Embracing psychiatry from bench to bedside
Research links adolescent cannabis use to depression, advances a firs... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mapping the neural circuits of bipolar disorder before symptoms strike | Mary L. Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab), University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Dr. Mary Phillips and her research team.
Mary L. Phillips: Understanding how the brain regulates itself via the study of neural networks underlying emotional regulation
Bipol... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | A comprehensive review charts how psychiatry could finally diagnose what it actually treats | Key conceptual frameworks redefining psychiatric diagnosis. The figure shows select schematic principles rather than empirical examples. All panels are purely illustrative.
New approaches to enhance the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders
Ca... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Thousands of genetic variants shape epilepsy risk, and most remain hidden | GWAS power plots. Power plots of current and future GWAS estimated using MiXeR, displaying the estimated proportion of SNP-heritability explained by genome-wide significant SNPs as a function of sample size, N.
The genetics of common epilep... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Sex-specific brain atlas of GLP-1 reveals why weight-loss drugs may work differently in females and males | Sex–specific Glp1 density in the olfactory bulb. Representative RNAscopemicrographs of olfactory GrO showing Glp1 expression (red arrows) in female and male mice.
Sex–specific Glp1 density in brain divisions. Glp1 density in main brain regi... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | When rats run, their gut bacteria rewrite the chemical conversation with the brain | Wheel running exercise modified the gut microbiota composition in adult rats. ∗∗∗ p < 0.001. Abbreviations: EX (exercise); SED (sedentary).
Exercise induces changes in tryptophan metabolism by gut microbes associated with hippocampal fun... |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Study of two million people: Inherited risk for mental illness spills across diagnostic lines far more than realized | (A) The genetic specificity of nine of our disorders as a function of their level of recurrence. (B) The linear effects of the genetic specificity on the level of recurrence.
The specificity of genetic risk for psychiatric and substance use... |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Ronald C. Kessler: Shining Light on the Hidden Impact of Mental Disorders on People and Communities Everywhere | Ronald C. Kessler: Elucidating the population burden of mental disorders
Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, Harvard Medical School, USA.
Ronald C Kessler: Impact on psychiatry and psychology
Landmark surveys across 30+ countries exposed massive treatm... |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Psychedelic treatment reveals addiction-like behavior in anorexia animal model, not expected social withdrawal | Psilocybin mushrooms (Psilocybe cubensis). Researchers found that the psychoactive compound psilocybin produces opposite inflammatory and behavioral effects in female mice depending on exercise history and metabolic state. Credit: DepositPh... |
| Jan 7, 2026 | Scientists Discover Why Promising Alzheimer's Drugs Keep Failing, and Point to a Fix | Working hypothesis for the roles of AMPKα isoforms in Alzheimer’s disease.
Isoform-specific roles and overlooked complexity of AMPKα in Alzheimer’s disease
Discovery could redirect drug development for disease affecting 6.7 million American... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Scientists Study World's Oldest Living Man and Fellow Brazilian Supercentenarians to Unlock Why Some Live Past 110 | Mayana Zatz and Laura, a 104-year-old swimming champion. Photo credit: Mayana Zatz (Genomic Press).
Beach at Barra de Lagoa, Santa Catarina Island, Brazil. Photo credit: Adam Jones (Flickr), CC BY 2.0.
Insights from Brazilian supercentenari... |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Exercise counteracts junk food's depression-like effects through gut-brain metabolic signaling | The metabolic tug-of-war: Exercise versus ultra-processed diet. Voluntary exercise exerts an antidepressant-like behavioral effect and attenuates metabolic dysregulation in rats fed a cafeteria diet.
Exercise mitigated a cafeteria diet–indu... |
| Sep 10, 2025 | Pioneering Neuroscientist's Century of Vitality Illuminates Scientific Pathways to Longevity and Cognitive Resilience | Drs. Seymor Reichlin and Esther Sternberg sharing a laugh over a birthday dinner—April 2024. Photo Credit: Dr. Mark Abrams.
OPEN ACCESS Viewpoint on Dr. Seymour Reichlin published in Brain Medicine (Genomic Press, New York) and authored by ... |
| Jul 8, 2025 | WVU Neuroscience Chair, Dr. Randy Nelson, Reveals Hidden Dangers of Artificial Light at Night in Groundbreaking Research | Dr. Randy J Nelson, Professor and Chair, Hazel Ruby McQuain Chair for Neurological Research, Department of Neuroscience, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University
Illustration of artificial light at night causing bodily s... |
| May 20, 2025 | Scientific Papers Detail How Human Brains Contain a 'Spoonful of Plastic' Linked to Ultra-Processed Foods | Brain on Instant Noodles: Visualizing the journey of microplastics from ultra-processed foods to neural tissue.
The calamity of a plastic spoon in your brain: The Brain Medicine May 2025 journal issue highlights the impact of microplastics ... |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Substance use accelerates brain aging through distinct molecular pathways, groundbreaking study reveals | This image illustrates the central theme of accelerated biological aging in substance use disorders. A human brain model positioned alongside a clock and substance residue (cocaine) visually represents how substance use disorders age the br... |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Neuroendocrinology pioneer's century-long journey celebrated in special Festschrift | Dr. Seymour Reichlin as he views his birthday cake and is about to blow out the candles at his 100th Birthday Celebration in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Seymour Reichlin with some of his former fellows at his 90th Birthday Celebration at the... |
