Ketamine triggers a corticosterone-FKBP51 signaling pathway in female mice that prompts microglia to clear extracellular matrix and enhance synaptic plasticity, an immune-driven mechanism absent in males.
Ketamine Reshapes Neural Networks and Neuroplasticity Read More »
An international initiative establishes the first consensus framework for vocal biomarkers, creating standardized definitions to accelerate voice-based disease diagnostics.
Teaching AI to “Listen” for Disease Read More »
Focused ultrasound effectively opens the blood-brain barrier in gliomas, proving that brain tumors are highly receptive to targeted, size-optimized drug delivery.
Focused Ultrasound Opens Blood-Brain Barrier to Treat Brain Cancer Read More »
A new study demonstrates that psilocybin-assisted therapy is safe and achieves a 75% remission rate in veterans with severe, treatment-resistant PTSD.
Psilocybin Therapy Drives 75% PTSD Remission Read More »
Learning relies on refining the strength of existing connections rather than building new neural pathways, pointing to a shared computational principle in human and artificial intelligence.
Learning Depends on Refining Existing Neural Connections Read More »
Controlled breathing interventions significantly reduce substance cravings across alcohol, nicotine, opioids, and stimulants, offering a scalable adjunct to standard addiction therapies.
Controlled Breathing Reduces Cravings in Addiction Read More »
Musical improvisation suppresses self-critical prefrontal regions in adults and activates intrinsic reward structures in children, demonstrating that generative creativity is an innate brain mechanism.
How Musical Improvisation Rewires Brain Activity Read More »
Analyzing UK sugar rationing data shows that limiting sugar exposure in utero and during the first two years of life reduces dementia risk by up to 23% and delays disease onset by 2.6 years.
Early Sugar Restriction Linked to 23% Lower Risk of Dementia Read More »
A new study presents a mathematical framework showing that organisms shift abruptly from reactive to memory-based strategies only when energy resources exceed a critical threshold, with memory offering peak utility under moderate environmental uncertainty.
Resource Limits and Noise Dictate Memory Read More »
The m6A reader protein IGF2BP3 stabilizes TRNAU1AP mRNA to drive protective selenoprotein synthesis, revealing a novel targeted drug vulnerability in glioblastoma.
Gene Pathway Identified as Glioblastoma Target Read More »
