Autism spectrum disorder and early-life stress converge on systemic hyperexcitability and stress epigenetics

Long-term antidepressant effects of psilocybin linked to functional brain changes - a single dose of psilocybin altered the electrical properties of brain cells in rats for months, even after physical changes to the neurons had disappeared.

Study assessed brain activity in adolescents with and without a history of depression, and how it relates to everyday emotional expression in text messages

Early life adversity may fundamentally rewire global brain dynamics

Prior research suggests meditation may slow brain aging and reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease

New study challenges the core of lesion network mapping, showing it may reveal the same “universal” brain network across unrelated brain disorders

How Brain Neurons Separately Encode Items and Contexts for Memory

Studies show that scratching overrides itch signals and engages pain-modulating regions in the brain, creating a sense of relief and calm

ADHD risk may not be fixed at birth, but shaped by early environments: For children with parents who have elevated ADHD symptoms, a rich and supportive home environment predicted better cognitive functioning and linked to fewer ADHD symptoms in later childhood and adolescence.

Autism shows elevated brain glutamine on 7T MRS, consistent with presumably increased glutamine–glutamate cycling, indicating greater glutamate turnover and recycling demand in adults

Restoring a specific protein could rewire the brain in Down syndrome

Calcium alpha-ketoglutarate (CaAKG), a naturally occurring molecule our body produces, restores key memory functions disrupted in Alzheimer’s disease, suggests new study in mice

Tofersen, a new drug approved by the FDA for a genetic form of ALS, delays symptom progression and death and in about one-quarter of participants leads to stabilization or improvement

Using the same math employed by string theorists, network scientists discover that surface optimization governs the brain’s architecture — not length minimization.

Amusing neuroscience-inspired essay on time dilation and bad story-telling by a distressed brain

Peer-reviewed by human experts: AI failed in key steps to generate a scoping review

Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and the School of Biomedical Sciences have discovered a nanoscale molecular scaffold that exists in the tissue that surrounds the axon that protects sensory axons from degenerating.

Brain scan ‘caricatures’ could lead to better treatment outcomes by emphasizing individual differences

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space: « MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to patches of the cortex

Long-term effects of 40-hertz auditory stimulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: New study provides the first primate evidence of 40-Hz auditory stimulation can sustainably modulate the Aβ metabolism in the brain, supporting its potential as a noninvasive Alzheimer’s treatment method.

New MEG research finds meditation alters neural oscillations and complexity, shifting the brain toward "critical dynamics." This suggests the practice tunes the brain to a tipping point between order and chaos, potentially optimizing information processing and flexibility.

CTE Is Caused by More Than Head Trauma, New Study Suggests

Two new subtypes of MS found in ‘exciting’ breakthrough

NPR’s In Good Health explores whether Parkinson’s may be largely preventable

Team discovers molecular difference in brains of people with autism

ADHD is a circadian rhythm disorder, according to Frontiers paper

Biological roots of PTSD differ strikingly between men and women

Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study

Lifelong diet quality predicts cognitive ability and dementia risk in older age

A study of more than 30,000 adults in the U.S

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