Neuroscience

Marijuana's Impact On Working Memory Revealed In Brain Scans

A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to 36 from the Human Connectome Project collected between August 2012 and 2015 and found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working m ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2025 - 2:46pm

Prosthetic Hearing: Soft Brainstem Implant One Step Closer To Human Trials

The cochlear implant has helped many regain hearing functionality and a new study shows a potential roadmap for those whose cochlear nerve is too damaged; the auditory brainstem implant. The current auditory brainstem implant and its rigid structure does n ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2025 - 12:25pm

Becoming The Music: How Our Brains Sync With Sound To Create Emotion

Some psychologists believe our brains and bodies don’t just understand music, we become it. We physically resonate with it. They call their belief Neural Resonance Theory (NRT).  They use Theory is in the name, but it is not a theory like gravity or evolut ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2025 - 1:18pm

A Decline In Financial Skills May Be A Harbinger Of Alzheimer’s

It is a time-honored tradition for the young to ridicule the old and vice-versa but some warning signs in the elderly may be serious. Elderly people are often financially savvy, and get more so with age- unless Alzheimer’s begins to set in, according to a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2025 - 9:11am

Chinese Researchers Are Rewiring Brains Using Interfaces

Human evolution and culture have been shaped by our increasing ability to communicate. A new review from China believes that brain-computer interfaces mark the next leap: a direct connection between mind and machine. They note breakthroughs in neural signa ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2025 - 10:03am

Inflammatory Bowel Disease May Accelerate Dementia

You have probably heard the phrase “follow your gut” – often used to mean trusting your instinct and intuition. But in the context of the gut-brain axis, the phrase takes on a more literal meaning. Scientific research increasingly shows that the brain and ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 18 2025 - 11:18am

No Sense Of Smell? Try Radio Waves

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