Intelligence News
March 2, 2025
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Feb. 27, 2025 — A new study suggests a nasal spray developed to target neuroinflammation could one day be an effective treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI). By studying the effects of the nasal anti-CD3 in a mouse model of TBI, researchers found the spray ...
Feb. 25, 2025 — New research suggests that certain antidepressants can accelerate cognitive decline in people with dementia. At the same time, some drugs appear to be less harmful than others, which can help doctors ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — Researchers published a study analyzing more than 30 years of aging and dementia patterns of 678 ...
Feb. 26, 2025 — The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study shows how these differences manifest themselves in the structure of the ...
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Feb. 24, 2025 — A new artificial intelligence model measures how fast a patient's brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and ...
Feb. 24, 2025 — Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental grocery list and then going shopping or remembering and then dialing a ...
Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled a transformative framework for understanding complex systems. This pioneering study establishes the new field of ...
Feb. 21, 2025 — Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...
Feb. 21, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a fundamental mechanism that affects the size of the pupil, namely our breathing. The study shows that the pupil is smallest during inhalation and largest during ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — Electroencephalography (EEG) may offer a more accessible alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for guiding transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) when treating aphasia. ...
Feb. 19, 2025 — Very early exposure to even a very small dose of herpes simplex virus (HSV) in infant mice can lead to cognitive decline later in life, according to ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Researchers found that excessively activated neurons over time, rather than decreased neuronal activity, cause aging-related decline in brain ...
Feb. 13, 2025 — Researchers analyzed data from 857 patients across 36 fMRI brain imaging studies and mapped a common brain circuit for ...
Feb. 12, 2025 — It's been a long-held belief that absolute pitch -- the ability to identify musical notes without reference -- is a rare gift reserved for a select ...
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Feb. 18, 2025 — Meeting the minimum requirement for vitamin B12, needed to make DNA, red blood cells and nerve tissue, may not actually be enough -- particularly if you are older. It may even put you at risk for ...
Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and ...
Feb. 10, 2025 — Researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — Researchers have unveiled the precise brain mechanisms that enable animals to overcome instinctive fears. The study in mice could have implications for developing therapeutics for fear-related ...
Feb. 6, 2025 — People's ability to interpret emotions or focus on performing a task is reduced by short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution, potentially making everyday activities, such as ...
Feb. 5, 2025 — A new study has found that certain bacteria were associated with better memory and attention, while others were linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's ...
Feb. 5, 2025 — When given the opportunity, individuals will cheat to feel smarter or healthier, engaging in diagnostic self-deception to convince themselves that their performance is due to their ability and not ...
Feb. 4, 2025 — A paradigm-shifting study shows an experimental drug, GL-II-73, has the potential to restore memory and cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. The study demonstrates that ...
Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered how perceptual memories linked to positive emotions, such as joy or happiness, are strengthened during sleep. The study could help scientists understand the neurological ...
Feb. 3, 2025 — A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving ...
Feb. 3, 2025 — Our brain is remarkably flexible in producing different reactions to supposedly comparable situations. The same sensory information can lead to different decisions depending on the behavioral ...
Jan. 30, 2025 — Being more social by visiting friends, attending parties and going to church may help keep your brain healthy, according to new ...
Jan. 30, 2025 — An artificial intelligence (AI) model designed to predict a person's biological age (age of body cells and tissues) based on electrocardiogram (ECG) data found a strong association between ...
Jan. 29, 2025 — Researchers discovered children ages 3 to 5 tested before and after COVID lockdowns had a significant gap in a key cognitive skill, particularly for children from homes with low financial resources ...
Jan. 29, 2025 — New psychology research indicates that multilingual children may have enhanced executive function and perspective taking ...
Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study explores the effects of both recent and lifetime cannabis use on brain function during cognitive tasks. The study, the largest of its kind ever to be completed, examined the effects of ...
Jan. 27, 2025 — Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and the amount of sleep we get may influence our risk of developing Alzheimer's ...
Jan. 27, 2025 — A study showed that changes in the functioning of opioid neurotransmitters in the brain may underlie ...
Jan. 24, 2025 — Researchers have found a promising drug candidate that could help restore vision in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological conditions that damage ...
Jan. 24, 2025 — A new study sheds light on one of the most severe consequences of stroke: damage to the brain's 'cables'-- the so-called nerve fibers -- which leads to permanent ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Scientists Discover Brain Mechanism That Helps Us Overcome Fear
- Air Pollution Clouds the Mind and Makes Everyday Tasks Challenging
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
- Mouth Bacteria May Hold Insight Into Your Future Brain Function
- Fool Yourself: People Unknowingly Cheat on Tasks to Feel Smarter, Healthier
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025
- Positive Emotions Plus Deep Sleep Equals Longer-Lasting Perceptual Memories
- How Does the Hippocampus Coordinate Memory Encoding and Retrieval?
- How the Brain Enables Flexible Decisions
Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Being Social May Delay Dementia Onset by Five Years
- ECG Tests May Someday Be Used by AI Model to Detect Premature Aging and Cognitive Decline
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
- COVID Lockdowns Disrupted a Crucial Social Skill Among Preschoolers, Trailblazing Study Finds
- The Benefits of Speaking Multiple Languages
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Monday, January 27, 2025
- Delayed REM Sleep Could Be an Early Sign of Alzheimer's
- Patients With Anorexia Have Elevated Opioid Neurotransmitter Activity in the Brain
Friday, January 24, 2025
- New Drug Shows Promise in Restoring Vision for People With Nerve Damage
- Researchers Map the Brain's Self-Healing Abilities After Stroke
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Researchers Create New Guidelines to Diagnose Common Memory Disorder Frequently Mistaken for Alzheimer's Disease
- Childhood Epilepsy May Predispose to Memory Disorders Later in Life
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Friday, January 17, 2025
- Researchers Map Individual Brain Dynamics
- Brains of People With Sickle Cell Disease Appear Older
- 'Ding-Dong:' A Study Finds Specific Neurons With an Immune Doorbell
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- Aerobic Exercise: A Powerful Ally in Fight Against Alzheimer's
- Is Eating More Red Meat Bad for Your Brain?
- A Molecule Is Shown to Produce Cognitive Improvement in Rodents With Early Alzheimer's Disease
- Researchers Identify Three Psychological Profiles That Could Determine the Evolution of Mental, Cognitive and Brain Health in Aging
Monday, January 13, 2025
- Circulation Problems in the Brain's Seat of Memory Linked to Mild Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults
- Brain Connectome Phenotype Linked to Cerebrovascular Disease Can Track Cognitive Decline
Friday, January 10, 2025
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Friday, December 20, 2024
Thursday, December 19, 2024
- Getting Rehab Earlier Improves Concussion Outcomes
- Machine Psychology: A Bridge to General AI?
- Brain Inflammation Alters Behavior According to Sex, Mouse Study Finds
- Drinking Coffee May Help Prevent Mental Decline in People With Atrial Fibrillation
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
- Dyslexia Genetics Linked to Brain Structure
- Sleep Apnea Linked to Changes in the Brain
- Study Supports New Blood-Based Biomarker to Detect Early Brain Changes Leading to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Monday, December 16, 2024
- Staying Sharp: Study Explores How Brain Changes May Affect Financial Skills
- Ditch TV and Read a Book: Research Delivers Best Moves to Reduce Dementia Risk
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
- Fluctuating Blood Pressure Tied to Problems With Thinking Skills
- Intelligence Requires the Whole Brain
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
- Resolving Ambiguity: How the Brain Uses Context in Decision-Making and Learning
- Sculpting the Brain (Without Chisel or Scalpel)
Monday, December 9, 2024
- Researchers 'see' Vulnerability to Gaming Addiction in the Adolescent Brain
- Short-Term Cognitive Boost from Exercise May Last for 24 Hours
Friday, December 6, 2024
- Why People Remember Certain Things and Not Others
- Early Detection of High-Altitude Hypoxic Brain Injury
Thursday, December 5, 2024
- New Pathways to Long-Term Memory Formation
- To Remember Conversations, Keep Making New Brain Cells
- Unlocking the Science of Sleep: How Rest Enhances Language Learning
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
- Study in Neurosurgery Patients Reveals Numerical Concepts Are Processed Deep in Ancient Part of Brain
- New Hope for Schizophrenia: iTBS Over the Left DLPFC Improves Negative and Cognitive Symptoms
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
- Soccer Heading Damages Brain Regions Affected in CTE, Study Finds
- Brain Stimulation Effectiveness Tied to Learning Ability, Not Age
- New Discovery Could Offer Significant Answers on Alzheimer's Disease
- Newer Epilepsy Medications Used During Pregnancy Do Not Affect Neurological Development in Children
- Long COVID Brain Fog Linked to Lung Function
- Concussions Slow Brain Activity of High School Football Players
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
- Overthinking What You Said? It's Your 'lizard Brain' Talking to Newer, Advanced Parts of Your Brain
- New Insights Into Sleep Uncover Key Mechanisms Related to Cognitive Function
Thursday, November 21, 2024
- Snoring Linked to Behavioral Problems in Adolescents Without Declines in Cognition
- Short-Term Menopausal Hormone Therapy Has No Long-Term Cognitive Impact, Study Finds
- Signals of Inflammation During Pregnancy Linked to Aging and Memory Changes 50 Years Later
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
- How Educational Attainment May Impact Memory and Dementia Risk Later in Life
- Athletes Have Significantly Better Working Memory Than Sedentary People
- Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose Depression
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
- Study Identifies Potential New Drug for Parkinson's-Related Cognitive Decline, Dementia
- Creativity Camp Improves Adolescent Mental Health, Well-Being
- Can Everyday Physical Activity Improve Cognitive Health in Middle Age?
Monday, November 18, 2024
- Multiple Sclerosis Drug May Help With Poor Working Memory
- Neural Mechanisms of Sleep-Dependent Motor Learning Revealed in New Study on Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Friday, November 15, 2024
Thursday, November 14, 2024
- New Insights Into How We Navigate Space and Store Memories
- It's My Brain's Fault! Why Teenagers Make Often Unwise Decisions
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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Thursday, November 7, 2024
- Memories Are Not Only in the Brain, New Research Finds
- Prevalence of Unrecognized Cognitive Impairment in Socially and Economically Vulnerable Older Adults Is High
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
- Sleepiness During the Day May Be Tied to Pre-Dementia Syndrome
- What Happens in Your Brain While You Watch a Movie
- Researchers Have Uncovered the Mechanism in the Brain That Constantly Refreshes Memory