A new study reveals that evening chronotypes (night owls) experience significantly higher body fat percentages, visceral adiposity, elevated blood glucose,...
Prefrontal Cortex Can Block Creative Problem-Solving
The medial prefrontal cortex can block creative problem-solving by enforcing default habits, and silencing it accelerates strategy shifts.
Exercise Shields Dopamine Neurons in Parkinson’s
A new study shows how exercise releases muscle-derived “exerkines” that protect dopamine neurons and counter sarcopenia in Parkinson’s […]
Why Psychedelics Make Everything Feel Deeply Connected
A new study introduces “apical hypercontextualisation,” explaining how psychedelics target serotonin receptors on layer V pyramidal neurons to […]
Receptor Density Shapes Whole-Brain Network Dynamics
Researchers uses The Virtual Brain to show how regional acetylcholine receptor density shapes whole-brain activity and localized sleep […]
Early Stress Heightens Adult Anxiety
Early-life stress elevates the enzyme SETD7 in dopamine neurons, uncoiling DNA and creating a physical scar that heightens […]
How Overconfidence and Loss Aversion Co-Evolved
A new study demonstrates that human overconfidence persists because its decision-making costs make it a credible, peacock-like evolutionary […]
