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3D-Printed Brain Electrodes Custom-Fit Your Unique Neural Landscape
Researchers created 3D-printed hydrogel electrodes that mold to individual brain folds, enabling safer, higher-quality neural monitoring.
Daily Mental Sharpness Influences Productivity by 80 Minutes
A 12-week University of Toronto study finds that day-to-day fluctuations in mental sharpness can create up to an 80-minute productivity gap between your best and worst days.
Primary Cilium: The Brain's Hidden Architect and Protein Factory
New research reveals the primary cilium is a protein-making 'antenna' that shapes brain development, with implications for disorders like Filippi syndrome.
Digital Networking Rewires Your Brain to Forget Content
New research shows forming online connections shifts mental focus from learning content to tracking social ties, with a 40% drop in content recall.
Brain Stimulation Boosts Willpower to Quit Smoking, Study Finds
A new study shows that noninvasive brain stimulation targeting the self-control center reduces smoking by 11 cigarettes per day, offering a precision-medicine approach to addiction.
Discovery Challenges Brain Hierarchy, Redefines Natural Intelligence
New research finds decision-making signals in the primary somatosensory cortex, showing the brain relies on bidirectional feedback loops, not a simple hierarchy.
Why Bigger AI Models Learn Better: A Physicist's Answer
Physicists used a toy model to show that high-dimensional fluctuations stabilize learning, explaining why massive AI neural networks generalize better rather than overfitting.
Brain's Arousal 'Dial' Found: Implications for Parkinson's and Addiction
Researchers discovered that the anterior cingulate cortex acts as a 'dial' controlling the intensity of fight-or-flight responses, with potential treatments for Parkinson's and alcohol use disorder.
Eggs and Alzheimer's: Regular Consumption Linked to 27% Lower Risk
A large study of older adults found that eating eggs several times per week is associated with up to 27% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
New Geometry Maps How Neural Populations Encode Stimulus Information
Researchers derived a multi-scale geometry linking neural population activity to mutual information, revealing which stimulus features are most reliably encoded.
Outlier eye movement analysis reveals hidden heterogeneity in autism
Researchers used outlier analysis of pursuit eye movements to detect individual atypicalities in ASD, finding 39% of ASD participants were outliers vs. 5% of controls.
Psilocybin Rebuilds Brain Wiring and Boosts Cognitive Flexibility for Weeks
A single high dose of psilocybin increases brain entropy, leading to lasting anatomical changes in neural tracts and improved cognitive flexibility that persist for over a month.