Neuroscience · July 22, 2026 · 8 min read

The popular theory that highly sensitive people detect more sensory information than others just ran into a laboratory that found no evidence it is true

The concept of the highly sensitive person has become one of the most widely adopted frameworks in popular psychology. Introduced by psychologist Elaine Aron in the 1990s, it describes a…

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Medical Research & Innovations

A new study found that the sleep loss in Alzheimer’s is not caused by plaques. It is caused by the brain’s own immune response to them, and researchers found a way to reverse it

Sleep disruption is one of the most devastating and least discussed symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. While the public conversation about the condition…

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More than 90% of cancer deaths come from metastasis. A new study found that the act of spreading trains cancer cells to spread better, and identified a druggable target at the center of the process

More than 90 percent of cancer deaths are not caused by the original tumor. They are caused by metastasis, by the process…

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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…

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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 of how the brain makes decisions has been…