How Therapy Rewires the Brain to Ease Chronic Pain
Summary: Chronic pain affects one in five adults, and medication alone doesn’t always offer relief. A new review…
Calm Your Mind: Choose Mindfulness by Anxiety Type
Summary: Mindfulness is well known for its calming effects, but researchers now propose that different types of mindfulness…
Sitting for Hours May Shrink the Brain
Summary: Prolonged sedentary behavior in adults over 50 is linked to cognitive decline and brain shrinkage in regions…
How Music Can Emotionally Reshape Your Memories
Summary: A new neuroscience study reveals that music can alter the emotional content of our memories when played…
Type 2 Diabetes Linked to Brain Thinning
Summary: A new study reveals that type 2 diabetes is associated with thinning of the brain’s cortex in…
Light Exercise Boosts Memory via Dopamine and Noradrenaline
Summary: New research reveals that even light exercise, like jogging or yoga, activates key neurotransmitter systems that enhance…
Parents’ Age, Ancestry, and Habits Shape New DNA Mutations
Summary: A massive genomic study has revealed that parental age, ancestry, and smoking habits subtly influence the number…
Babies Fight COVID Differently Than Anyone Else
Summary: Infants hospitalized with severe COVID-19 mount an immune response that looks entirely different from that of adults…
Your Brain Loves Deep Breathing, Science Explains Why
Summary: Breathwork, or the practice of intentionally controlling one’s breathing, has been shown to calm brain activity, reduce…
Hidden Patterns Shape Animal Behavior Across Species
Summary: Despite vast ecological differences, animals from meerkats to hyenas appear to follow a shared behavioral architecture in…