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Why Your Brain Protects Nostalgia From Scandals
Summary: When a beloved artist is revealed to have committed serious wrongdoing, how do people hold on to their past appreciation for that artist’s work? Research from the…
Psychology · Neurology · Brain & AI
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Dietary Lecithin May Lower Risk of Cognitive Impairment
Summary: A combined cross-sectional epidemiological and targeted lipidomics study of 1,917 community-dwelling older adults found that higher dietary intake of lecithin—a major…
Noninvasive Neural Circuit Mapping Without Touching a Neuron
Summary: A new mathematical and computational framework published in The Innovation addresses a central problem in empirical science: how to infer genuine…
Overlooked Blood Cell Could Reveal Parkinson’s Brain Changes
Summary: A genomic and transcriptomic study led by the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) finds that blood platelets provide a…
Premature Birth Disrupts Cerebellar Wiring and Brain Development
Summary: A major new study published in Science by researchers at Children’s National Hospital and Seattle Children’s challenges the long-held belief that…
New Transporter Crosses Blood-Brain Barrier to Deliver Creatine
Summary: Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) have identified the sodium-dependent multivitamin transporter (SMVT) as a viable pathway to deliver…
Study Links Industrial Water Pollution to Higher PSP Risk
Summary: A 25-year epidemiological study of more than 500,000 adults in the United Kingdom, published in Neurology, links residential proximity to industrial…
Noisy Labels Still Bias AI and ML Decisions
Summary: A cognitive psychology study explored how people use explicit reliability information when deciding which sources to trust. The experiments, funded by…
Why Women Prefer Warmer Indoor Temperatures
Summary: A molecular neurobiology study from King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) uncovers a cellular explanation for why…
Why Some People Seek Hugs While Others Avoid Touch
Summary: A large psychological survey of 15,049 adults in the UK, published in PLOS One, found that nearly 70% of respondents remember…
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