How Your Brain Saves Nostalgia From Scandals

Summary: When an admired artist is embroiled in scandal, how does the mind preserve its past love for their work? A study from the University of South Florida, published in…

Dietary Lecithin Linked to Lower Cognitive Impairment

Summary: A cross-sectional epidemiological and targeted lipidomics study of 1,917 community-dwelling older adults reveals that higher dietary intake of lecithin, a major source of phosphatidylcholine, is significantly associated with a…

How to Map Brain Circuits Without Touching a Single Neuron

Summary: A mathematical and computational framework published in The Innovation resolves a foundational challenge in empirical science: determining genuine cause and effect in complex, non-linear systems without physical intervention. Developed…

Unreliable Labels Still Bias Decisions

Summary: A cognitive psychology study examining how individuals evaluate source trustworthiness reveals that people struggle to discard uninformative data, even when its unreliability is explicitly stated. In multi-source decision-making experiments…

Why Some People Love Hugs While Others Hate Them

Summary: A massive psychological survey of over 15,000 UK adults published in PLOS One reveals that nearly 70% of people remember hugs primarily for their comfort, emotional support, and sense…

Nearly Half of Distressed Adults Use AI for Therapy

Summary: A survey study led by researchers at Tel-Hai University of Kiryat Shmona reveals that almost one in three Israeli adults using general-purpose generative AI tools rely on platforms like…

Brain Scans Fail to Predict How Well Individuals Regulate Emotions

Summary: A massive neuroimaging meta-analysis combining 40 fMRI datasets across 2,175 participants challenges a central dogma in affective neuroscience and clinical psychology. Conducted by the international NIDER consortium across 32…

Finding the Brain’s Mood Switch in Bipolar Disorder

Summary: A multi-institutional consortium led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Stanford University, and Johns Hopkins University has received a $4.5…

How Ego and Self-Image Change Brain Sync

Summary: A neuroimaging study led by Aalto University reveals that individuals with high levels of grandiose personality traits exhibit disrupted neural synchrony when observing others face social vulnerability. Utilizing functional…

Brain Stimulation Stops Sexual Objectification

Summary: A neurocognitive study from the University of Exeter reveals that non-invasive brain stimulation can temporarily eliminate a perceptual signature linked to the sexual objectification of women. Using transcranial direct…