Summary: A neuroimaging and genetic investigation led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals precisely how psilocybin restructures neural connectivity in living brains. Publishing in Nature Neuroscience,…
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Neural Chip Powers Adaptive DBS for Depression
Summary: Engineers at EPFL’s Integrated Neurotechnologies Lab have developed LogSync, an ultra-low-power, implantable system-on-chip designed to transform deep brain stimulation (DBS) for severe psychiatric conditions like treatment-resistant depression and PTSD.…
Why did humans’ brains surpass chimps’? A tiny foe might help explain it
Viruses may be minuscule, but one could have influenced major differences between human and chimpanzee brains. Millions of years ago, a virus left DNA behind in an African ape’s genome,…
Genetic Blueprint of Personality Revealed
Summary: A massive meta-analysis spanning up to 1.14 million individuals across 46 research groups has yielded the most comprehensive genetic architecture of human personality to date. Published in Nature, the…
Guinea-Bissau halts widely condemned RFK Jr.-backed vaccine trial that would have withheld life-saving vaccines from thousands of newborns
A controversial US-funded trial that would have withheld the hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine from newborns in Guinea-Bissau is dead, as the Guardian’s Melody Schreiber reports. Lead researcher Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a…
How the Brain Maps Every Number
Summary: A neuroimaging study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit (Unicog) reveals that the human brain constructs a continuous, highly structured spatial semantic map in the…
Non-Drug Breakthrough for Postpartum Depression
Summary: A nationwide clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Massachusetts General Hospital reveals that a free, online mindfulness program significantly reduces the risk of…
Celebrating the winner of the Best Lightning Talk award at the Aquatic Ecology SIG Annual Meeting 2026, Sarah Sandor! – Functional Ecologists
We’re delighted to celebrate the winner of Functional Ecology’s sponsored prize for the Best Lightning Talk award at the Aquatic Ecology SIG Annual Meeting 2026, Sarah Sandor (she/her)! Read Sarah’s…
Police raid Guinea-Bissau offices of RFK Jr.-backed vaccine researchers, seize hepatitis B doses
Judicial police in Guinea-Bissau searched the offices of the Bandim Health Project on Monday and seized doses of hepatitis B vaccine, as The Guardian’s Melody Schreiber reports, though police stressed…
Why AI Cannot Replace the Transformative Power of Human Creativity
Summary: As generative artificial intelligence masters the rapid synthesis of complex paintings, music, and literature, a new theoretical framework published in AI & Society re-evaluates the true essence of human…
