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Brain organoids, a six-million-person genetics map, LSD-derived MM120 for anxiety, and an SGK1 trauma pathway: what neuroscience actually found about mental
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Rocking a baby to sleep isn't just tradition — 2019 research found rocking speeds sleep onset and deepens slow-wave sleep, even in adults.
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A 2013 study found sex differences in the brain protein Foxp2 — but the real story was subtler, and nearly the opposite of the 'women talk more' headlines.
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Chronic sleep deprivation raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and dementia. Sleep is not downtime; it is maintenance.
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Stanford and Northwestern researchers taught volunteers a 30-character password without ever telling them — using a Guitar Hero-style game.
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A Dutch brain-imaging study found that seeing a celebrity endorse shoes lights up the medial orbitofrontal cortex — the persuasiveness of fame itself, not
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In 2012, Chinese researchers using diffusion tensor imaging reported white-matter abnormalities in internet addicts resembling those seen in drug addicts.
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Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.
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