Neuroscience

We usually associate smell with bad things, like body odors or fire or a gas leak, but a keen sense of smell helps us enjoy food and other pleasures in life. Many things cause loss of smell; aging is number one, but also brain injuries and loss of smell wa ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2025 - 1:14pm

Genetic Mutations In Brain Tumors Can Now Be Detected During Surgery

Conventional genetic analysis methods for genotyping of brain tumors usually require one or two days to obtain results but a new method can determine optimal resection margins during surgery in just a few minutes. The ability to accurately detect genetic m ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2025 - 2:37pm

Do You Have A Sixth Sense? NIH Funds An Interoception Study To Find Out

The process by which the nervous system continuously receives and interprets the body’s physiological signals to keep vital functions running smoothly, a "sixth sense" called interoception that tells your brain when you need to breathe, when your ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2025 - 1:12pm

What's Happening In The Brains Of Protesters?

From Los Angeles to Portland to New York City, political protests have become common. That provides data for what may be happening in brains and how engaged people can avoid becoming a Tyler Robinson or Luigi Mangione or Antifa in Oregon. The US is not spe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 15 2025 - 2:19pm

Circumcision Linked To Autism- Epidemiology

A paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine links circumcision in boys to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The results were drawn from part a cohort of all children born in Denmark between 1994 and 2003. During the study, over 340,000 boys were ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2025 - 11:28am

Are We Stochastic Parrots, Too? What LLMs Teach Us About Intelligence And Understanding

Having interacted for a few months with ChatGPT 5 now, both for work-related problems and for private / self-learning tasks, I feel I might share some thoughts here on what these large models can tell us about our own thought processes. The sentence above ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 24 2025 - 6:48am

Here's What Happens To Your Brain When You Give Up Sugar For Lent

Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital of the World” – doesn’t help either of us. But An ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 16 2026 - 11:26am

At 2 Months, Babies Can Categorize Objects

At two months of age, infants lack language and fine motor control but their minds may be understanding how things look and figuring out to which category they belong, which would push back earlier beliefs about the foundations of visual cognition. A new s ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2026 - 1:20pm

Teens Are Getting Much Less Sleep Than In The Past

A new paper says teens are not getting enough sleep and a lot of parents with teenage children may disagree. Others reflexively blame phones and tablets. It isn't a new concern, though. Nor is technology new in getting blame. In 1905, The Lancet publi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2026 - 11:56am

High Meat Consumption Linked To Lower Dementia Risk

Older people who eat large amounts of meat have a lower risk of dementia and cognitive decline than they should have with a gene that some link to increased risk. The gene that has been linked to increased risk is Apolipoprotein E, which plays a role in th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2026 - 11:51am