open science

Internet Addiction Disrupts Adolescent Brain Networks

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: A new study reviewed neuroimaging research on internet addiction in adolescents, revealing disrupted brain signaling in critical neural networks. These disruptions ...

Study Reveals Shifting Language in Mental Health Over 79 Years

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: A study of 340,000 texts over 79 years found a shift from terms like “disease” and “disturbance” to “mental health” and ...

How ‘Not’ Changes Everything: Brain Interprets Negated Adjectives

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: Researchers found that negating adjectives with “not” affects how our brains interpret their meaning, mitigating rather than inverting their definition. In ...

Parental Distraction Negatively Impacts Child-Parent Interactions

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Summary: A new study finds that any form of parental distraction, whether from screens or non-digital activities, negatively impacts parent-child interaction. Both ...

Bird Brains: Jays Show Episodic-like Memory

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Summary: A new study finds that Eurasian jays exhibit episodic-like memory, a type of memory previously thought to be unique to humans. ...

Stress May Boost Helping Behavior When Witnessing Injustice

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: A new study finds that acute stress experienced while witnessing injustice can make people more likely to help victims rather than ...

Bright Light, Sharper Mind: Lighting Affects Cognition

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: A new study explores how different light levels impact cognitive function by influencing hypothalamic activity in the brain. The study utilized ...

Cycle of Decline: Neuron Aging in Alzheimer’s Unraveled

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: Neurons in Alzheimer’s disease patients tend to re-enter the cell cycle and quickly progress to senescence. Using advanced snRNA-seq techniques, researchers ...

Cracking Parkinson’s: Proteins’ Aggregation Unveiled

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: Researchers employing computational models have made a significant leap in understanding the aggregation of alpha-synuclein protein, crucial in Parkinson’s disease development. ...

Music’s Universal Pulse: Body and Emotions Unite Across Cultures

Health
Sarah Carter

Summary: A groundbreaking cross-cultural study has revealed that music universally influences bodily sensations and emotions, transcending cultural boundaries. Researchers from Western and ...