Hallucination, other psychotic symptoms after stopping GLP-1s: report
By the end of their first year on GLP-1s, more than half of patients stop taking the medication.…
Popular GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Linked to Potential Effects on Brain Health
Ground-breaking obesity drugs have transformed weight-loss treatment, and scientists are now investigating whether their effects could extend much…
Scientists Bred Friendly Foxes for 70 Years. What They Found in Their Brains Could Help Explain How Wolves Became Dogs
Vulpes vulpes—the red fox. Silver foxes are melanistic red fox individuals. Credit: Wikimedia Commons How do you turn…
Epileptic seizures nearly vanish after people receive experimental gene therapy in their brains
A scan shows the brain of a man with epilepsy. A newly developed gene therapy targets locations in…
The brain liquidates billions of mutant neurons around the time we’re born
By the time a baby is born, its brain has lost large numbers of neurons with genetic abnormalities.Credit:…
Excessive exercise disrupts dopamine regulation in the brain, study finds
Excessive physical exercise affects more than just the muscles; it can also alter brain chemistry. A new study…
How Ego and Self-Image Change Brain Sync
Summary: A neuroimaging study led by Aalto University reveals that individuals with high levels of grandiose personality traits…
Mysterious flickering brain signals could help to unlock secrets of consciousness
Monkey see: macaques’ brains strongly encode visual stimuli that are outside the animals’ awareness.Credit: Pete Oxford/Nature Picture Library…
Psilocybin reshapes brain connections through distinct cellular pathways
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals how psilocybin, the psychoactive…
Non-Drug Breakthrough for Postpartum Depression
Summary: A nationwide clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Massachusetts General Hospital…
How pregnancy reshapes the brain throughout life
A Mother’s Brain: The New Science of the Neuro-Maternal Revolution Susana Carmona MIT Press (2026) When I acquired…
Memory stays strong in old age when this brain enzyme is active
Screening of mouse hippocampus cells (pictured) identified an enzyme whose production rose with age. Credit: Talley Lambert/Science Photo…