Mental Health (39 articles)
- Friendship Might Actually Shrink Tumors (We Have the Neural Circuit to Prove It)
- Chronic Stress Breaks the Brain's Norepinephrine Control System
- Brain Scans Predicting Kids' Behavior Sounds Great, But Here's Why It's Harder Than You Think
- Astrocytes Have a Secret Fuel Source (And It Changes How They React to Inflammation)
- How Your Brain (and AI) Gets Good at Waiting for What Matters
- A Stress Hormone in the Brain Keeps Repair Cells from Growing Up Too Fast
- Brain-Computer Interfaces Have Been Playing a Frustrating Game of Telephone. Now There's a Better Way.
- Adult ADHD Is Real, But It's Weirder and More Complicated Than You Think
- Your Brain Has Two Separate Committees for "Will This Kill Me?" and "Will This Be Awesome?"
- Your Nervous System Has Been Helping Tumors Hide From Your Immune System This Whole Time
- Your Brain's Sugar Coating Is Tiny, Mysterious, and Probably More Important Than You Think
- Your Brain Treats Friendship Like a Stock Market (And Runs the Numbers Constantly)
- Your Gut Bacteria Apparently Want You to Skip Meals, and Your Brain Might Thank Them
- Your Prefrontal Cortex Isn't Just Bigger, It's Playing a Completely Different Game
- Your Cells Have a Secret Handshake Between the Warehouse and the Front Door
- Those "What Kind of Eater Are You?" Questionnaires Might Be Full of It
- Your Brain Doesn't Care That Scientists Like to Study One Variable at a Time
- When Synapses Get Too Quiet, Neurons Need a Specific Protein to Turn Up the Volume
- The Genetics of Chronic Pain Finally Points to Actual Cells (Including Ones in Your Back)
- The Morris Water Maze: Same Test, 1,000 Different Ways to Run It (And That's a Problem)
- The Brain's Own Sedatives Explain Why Some New Mothers Get Severely Depressed
- Three Types of Inhibitory Neurons in the Amygdala Do Very Different Things During Fear Learning
- The Cells Running Your Emotional Memory System Aren't Even Neurons
- Why Some Kids Get Diagnosed With Autism at 3 and Others at 13: Genetics Plays a Role
- What If Antidepressants Could Fight Cancer? (The Science Is Better Than It Sounds)
- Your Brain Falls Asleep Like Water Turns to Ice, and Scientists Can Now Predict the Exact Moment
- Want to Live Longer? Let Your Neurons Panic About Oxygen (Just a Little)
- Scientists Found a Drug Cocktail That Hits Just One Brain Circuit (No Lasers or Gene Therapy Required)
- Measuring Brain Excitability: Easy When Your Muscles Twitch, Hard When They Don't
- STING Kills Neurons Directly (No Inflammation Required)
- Scientists Built a Tiny Hotel for Worms So They Could Watch Each One's Entire Life Story
- Postpartum Psychosis Needs Its Own Diagnosis, Say Experts (And Here's Why It Belongs With Bipolar)
- Scientists Catch the Brain's Neurotransmitter Pump in Action (And See How Amphetamines Hijack It)
- Sleep Apnea: When Your Body Decides to Make Breathing a Team Sport
- Microplastics and Nanoplastics Damage Fish Brains (A Meta-Analysis)
- Ketamine Works for Depression in Hours, and We Still Don't Really Know Why
- How to Lie With Science: The Art of Cherry-Picking Studies to Scare People
- Scientists Caught Neurons Forming a Flash Mob the Moment a Mouse Enters a New Room
- Scientists Map What Goes Wrong in Diabetic Nerve Damage - Cell by Cell