Neuroscience · July 16, 2026 · 9 min read

Scientists gave people psilocybin in two different rooms and scanned their brains a week later. The rooms produced measurably different brains

The field of psychedelic-assisted therapy has spent the last decade trying to determine how psilocybin works. The question has focused almost entirely on the drug: what dose, what frequency, what…

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Neuroscience

The brain does not wait for sensory information to reach the frontal cortex before making a decision. New recordings show it starts far earlier, and no existing model predicted this

For decades, neuroscience assumed the brain makes decisions at the top. New research found it starts at the bottom. The standard model…

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Neuroscience

Researchers scanned 110 women before and after pregnancy and found that a second pregnancy completely rewires different brain networks than the first one did

Every mother of two children knows that the second child felt different from the first. The pregnancy felt different. The postpartum period…

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A decade of research claimed psychedelics increase brain entropy. A new study tested every major version of that claim and found most of them don’t hold up

The most widely cited explanation for what psychedelics do to the brain goes by the name of the entropic brain hypothesis. Proposed…

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Psychology

Psychology has assumed for decades that we bond with people like ourselves. A study of 1,484 people just found that personality similarity has almost no effect on how good a friendship feels

The phrase “birds of a feather flock together” has been part of the way people explain friendship for so long that it has moved from observation to assumption. Of course…