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The 5 Most Impactful Findings From National Geographic’s ‘Science of Sleep’ Issue

‘Sleep is an undiscovered country that each one of us travels to every night, but we really don’t understand it very well.’ National Geographic explore.

Depressed patients see quality of life improve with nerve stimulation

People treated with vagus nerve stimulation experience significant improvements in quality of life, even when their depression symptoms don’t completely dissipate, according to a new study.

Largest brain study of 62,454 scans identifies drivers of brain aging

In the largest known brain imaging study, scientists evaluated 62,454 brain SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) scans of more than 30,000 individuals from 9 months old to 105 years of age to investigate factors that accelerate brain aging.

‘Compulsivity circuit’ in heavy alcohol drinkers

Heavy alcohol drinkers attempt to acquire alcohol despite the threat of a negative consequence more so than light drinkers, a study has found, and this behavior is associated with unique activation of brain circuitry in heavy drinkers.

How the brain suppresses the act of revenge

Researchers have developed an economic game in which a participant is confronted with the fair behavior of one player and the unfair provocations of another player. They observed which areas were activated as the participant experienced unfairness and …

Effect of radiation exposure on hormone deficiencies

Researchers have detailed the effect of radiation exposure on the development of hormone deficiency in pediatric and young adult patients treated for brain tumors.

Taking the brain apart to put it all together again

A new Organ Chip system linked a Brain Chip with two blood-brain barrier (BBB) Chips to recapitulate the interactions between the brain and its blood vessels. This system reacts to methamphetamine exposure just like a human brain, and has allowed scien…

Beauty is simpler, and less special, than we realize

Beauty, long studied by philosophers, and more recently by scientists, is simpler than we might think, psychology researchers have concluded in a new analysis.

New in­form­a­tion on brain areas linked to tact­ile sense and meta­cog­nit­ive abil­ity

A new doctoral thesis gives information on the neural basis of the sense of touch. According to the results, magnetic stimulation of prefrontal cortex affected the subjects’ performance in tactile tasks, and their ability to evaluate their performance …

Rogue proteins may underlie some ALS and frontotemporal dementia cases

Some forms of ALS and frontotemporal dementia share a common loss of functioning of RNA-binding proteins that regulate gene expression, says a new study.