4+ hour, 36+ min ago  (871+ words) Psychedelic drugs were long treated as scientific outliers " powerful, controversial, and difficult to study. For decades, research slowed, leaving key questions about how these substances affect the brain unanswered. Now that serious studies have returned, scientists are seeing a surprising…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago  (1339+ words) Boucher J, Masri B, Daviaud D, Gesta S, Guign" C, Mazzucotelli A, et al. Apelin, a newly identified adipokine up-regulated by insulin and obesity. Endocrinology. 2005; 146: 176471. Kuba K, Zhang L, Imai Y, Arab S, Chen M, Maekawa Y, et al. Impaired…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago  (274+ words) Researchers at Georgia Tech are using math, science, and artificial intelligence to better understand how people think, move, and perceive the world. Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections....

2+ hour, 1+ min ago  (85+ words) Nature Reviews Neurology (2026)Cite this article The International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI) Mid-Career Awards promote the next generation of neuroimmunologists by recognizing the contributions of emerging leaders in the field. Qiang Liu was a 2025 awardee in Clinical Neuroimmunology. We spoke…...

9+ hour, 47+ min ago  (576+ words) Posted April 10, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina You are sitting still but your brain is not. Even in quiet moments, your mind drifts: replaying conversations, imagining futures, wondering what others think of you. For years, neuroscientists have known this activity reflects…...

8+ hour, 36+ min ago  (180+ words) Near-death experiences, or NDEs, have become a prominent way to study consciousness in the past 50 years. A new literature review surveys nearly 40 years of NDE research and finds that children's experiences are often excluded from findings. The authors argue that…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago  (370+ words) Cold War pressures led the US to fund controversial psychic research despite lacking reliable evidence. Parapsychology is like psychic stuff okay so it's like bullshit" the field is very small slash nonexistent basically. He gets some results that support the…...

22+ hour, 6+ min ago  (316+ words) Bibliometric analyses are essential for assessing research productivity and impact in academic medicine, particularly in neurosurgery. Traditional indices, such as the h-index, provide valuable insights into scholarly output but may disproportionately reflect past productivity. The five-year h-index (ih(5)-index) addresses…...

14+ min ago  (208+ words) A new discovery by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is shedding light on a potential pathway to protect the brain from damage linked to neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, and it could eventually inform new treatments for other conditions…...

7+ hour, 13+ min ago  (56+ words) FOX 5 Atlanta AI tools were meant to save time, but a new report shows employees are working longer hours to prove their worth. Certified career coach Amanda Augustine joins us to explain how to lean into empathy and strategy to…...