progscrape: neuroscience

A new study in healthy mice reveals that the weight-loss drug semaglutide alters behavior and brain activity related to stress and reward, leading to a suppression of natural reward-seeking drives and faster…

43 days ago psypost.org brain medicine neuroscience

First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment

54 days ago nature.com biology disease neuroscience

A new evolutionary theory suggests that consciousness did not simply emerge from high intelligence, but rather evolved as a distinct adaptation to help fragile organisms coordinate competing survival needs and manage self-maintenance under threat.

50 days ago psypost.org neuroscience

Acute stress impaired associative memory, while baseline cortisol moderated the relationship between cortisol reactivity and false recognition across two experiments involving 119 participants

52 days ago pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov neuroscience

Researchers found a 58% greater risk of cognitive impairment or dementia in patients with voice disorders, compared to those without

2 months ago sciencedirect.com neuroscience

High intelligence may exacerbate impulsivity in children with ADHD

55 days ago psypost.org neuroscience

A study found that children with congenital TORCH infections were three times more likely to be diagnosed with autism and seven times more likely to be diagnosed with an intellectual disability

52 days ago news.ki.se autism neuroscience

Young children’s brains (3 to 8 years) appear wired for distraction, favoring broad exploration over repeating familiar actions, which can improve learning early in development despite the costs of divided attention…

2 months ago news.osu.edu neuroscience

Psychedelic drugs reduce the amount of bottom-up brain activity flowing into a network associated with self-reflection

45 days ago psypost.org brain neuroscience

New evidence that the hippocampus is inappropriately changing memories between different memory phases as people age, and localizing the specific mechanism in the hippocampus

50 days ago theconversation.com neuroscience