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adult hippocampal neurogenesis, Brain, brain plasticity, cognition, dentate gyrus, granule cells, hippocampal atrophy, hippocampus, memory, neurogenesis, neuronal turnover, neuroscience, rat modelAdult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Added 670,000 Rat Dentate Neurons
A 2026 rat study estimated that adult hippocampal neurogenesis added 670,000 dentate…
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Brain, cognition, distraction, frontoparietal cortex, neuroscience, oblique effect, occipital cortex, orientation bias, posterior parietal cortex, sensory recruitment, tdcs, visual working memorytDCS Failed Visual Working Memory as Distraction Increased Orientation Bias
A 2026 two-experiment study found no visual-working-memory benefit from parietal or occipital…
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amygdala, Anxiety, anxiety disorders, associative learning, Brain, cognition, D-cycloserine, diffusion mri, exposure therapy, fear extinction, fMRI, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, PTSD, therapyResting Brain Connectivity Predicts Fear Extinction Learning
A 2026 multimodal MRI analysis of 509 healthy adults found that fear…
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ADNI, Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid, APOE, APOE-e4, blood biomarker, Brain, cognition, donanemab, Drugs, genetics, lecanemab, longitudinal cohort, mild cognitive impairment, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroscience, p-tau217, preclinical ADPlasma p-tau217 Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer’s Risk 1.5x Stronger in APOE-e4
Until recently, Alzheimer’s pathology could only be confirmed in living patients via…
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attention, Bayesian inference, betrayal, borderline personality disorder, cognition, computational psychiatry, hysteresis, personality disorders, Psychiatry, Psychology, PTSD, social inference, theory of mind, trustHow Betrayal Biases Trust: Selective Attention, Distrust, and Social Judgment
Betrayal does not just make people less trusting. It can also change…
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AD8 screening, Chinese-speaking, cognition, cognitive screening, Dementia, dementia risk screening, immigrant health, language barriers, Mandarin, Neurodegenerative Diseases, older adults, pre-dementia, primary careAD8 Dementia Screening in Chinese-Speaking Older Adults
Brief screening tools for early dementia risk are essential in primary care.…
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Brain, cholinergic, cognition, cognitive fluctuations, Diagnosis, DLB, donepezil, lewy body dementia, Mayo Fluctuations Composite, Neurodegenerative Diseases, neuroleptic sensitivity, neuroscience, Parkinson’s dementia, REM sleep behavior disorder, rivastigmine, sleepLewy Body Dementia Cognitive Fluctuations Affect 75-90% of Patients
Cognitive fluctuations are a defining feature of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB),…
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Brain, brain aging, cognition, cognitive aging, crp, cytokines, diffusion mri, Healthy Minds for Life, inflammation, neuroscience, NODDI, vascular risk, white matterInflammation Tracks White-Matter MRI in Aging Adults
Chronic low-grade inflammation rises with age, and a growing body of work…
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bipolar disorder, cognition, cognitive development, cognitive function, depression, high-risk children, major depressive disorder, meta-analysis, offspring cognition, parental mental illness, schizophreniaParental Mental Illness vs. Offspring Cognition: Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Depression
Research Highlights The “kids of mentally ill parents do worse” idea flattens…
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Alzheimer’s disease, Anxiety, cognition, Dementia, depression, loneliness, meta-analysis, Neurodegenerative Diseases, older adults, social isolation, suicideHow Much Does Loneliness Raise Dementia and Suicide Risk?
Research Highlights Loneliness is associated with substantially elevated risk of both Alzheimer’s…
