Sleep & Recovery
Fear Memories Hijack Sleep Through a Hidden Brain Circuit
Scientists pinpoint the ventral hippocampus-amygdala pathway as the neural switch that turns traumatic memories into sleep disruption.
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May 15, 2026 0
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Brain Health
Your Brain's Internal State Shapes What You See Before You See It
New research shows single V1 neurons in the visual cortex track internal arousal states, directly predicting perception and reaction speed.
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May 15, 2026 0
Brain Health
Cerebellum Uses Synchronized Neural Firing to Gate Motor Learning Circuits
New research reveals how the brain selectively triggers learning only during meaningful errors — not random neural noise.
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May 15, 2026 0
Brain Health
ALS Study Maps How Immune Cells Invade the Spine and Drive Motor Neuron Loss
A landmark Nature Neuroscience study reveals how peripheral immune cells infiltrate the spinal cord in ALS, pointing to targeted immunotherapy.
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May 15, 2026 0
Brain Health
Declining ULK1 Protein Links Autophagy Failure to Alzheimer's Progression
A master autophagy regulator drops with age and in AD patients — restoring it in mice clears amyloid, reduces tau, and rescues cognition.
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May 15, 2026 0
Brain Health
How to Control Aggression Using Neuroscience and Simple Daily Tools
Huberman breaks down the brain circuits behind aggression and shares evidence-based tools — sunlight, sauna, ashwagandha — to dial it down.
Podcast
May 15, 2026 0
Brain Health
New Psychedelic-Like Compounds Treat Depression Without Causing Hallucinations
UC Davis scientists created novel brain-healing molecules that activate key serotonin receptors tied to neuroplasticity — without triggering hallucinations.
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May 14, 2026 0
Brain Health
Junk DNA Drives Human Brain Development via Ancient Genetic Parasites
LINE-1 retrotransposons act as alternative gene promoters in human stem cells, and silencing them shrinks cerebral organoids.
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May 14, 2026 0
Brain Health
iPSC-Derived Vesicles Enable Noninvasive Optogenetics to Halt Alzheimer's Progression
Scientists used stem cell-derived vesicles to deliver light-activated gene therapy to the brain without surgery, reversing cognitive decline in Alzheimer's mice.
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May 14, 2026 0
Brain Health
Glymphatic System Research Explodes 10x in 5 Years as Alzheimer's Link Crystallizes
A bibliometric analysis of 595 papers maps how glymphatic-Alzheimer's research has grown exponentially, pinpointing AQP4, sleep, and DTI-ALPS imaging as the hottest frontiers.
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May 14, 2026 0
Brain Health
Boosting Brain Blood Flow Rescues the Brain's Waste-Clearance System During Sepsis
Cerebral hypoperfusion drives glymphatic dysfunction in systemic inflammation — and restoring blood flow with levosimendan reverses it.
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May 14, 2026 0
Sleep & Recovery
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Boosts Glymphatic Clearance and Cognition in Chronic Insomnia
A clinical trial finds 10 sessions of low-frequency rTMS improve sleep, glymphatic function, and cognition in chronic insomnia patients.
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