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The junction between the cortex and the brainstem highlights the center of our emotions. vist.ly/5qpti
Fear and Loathing in the Borderlands of the Brain
The junction between the cortex and the brainstem highlights the center of our emotions.
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APOE4 carriers can be up to 15 times more likely to develop the disease compared to those with the most common form of the gene. vist.ly/5qjys
How People at High Risk for Alzheimer’s Are Cultivating Community
APOE4 carriers can be up to 15 times more likely to develop the disease compared to those with the most common form of the gene.
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Men with ADHD are often diagnosed in their childhood, but for girls a diagnosis may not occur until well into adulthood. #ADHDAwareness vist.ly/5qidn
Girls With ADHD May Not Get Diagnosed Until They’re Older
Men with ADHD are often diagnosed in their childhood, but for girls a diagnosis may not occur until well into adulthood.
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When stress hijacks the brain, creativity can shut down — or surge. vist.ly/5qdn9
How Pressure Can Shape Problem Solving in High-Stakes Roles
When stress hijacks the brain, creativity can shut down — or surge.
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Happy birthday to our content partner, Knowable Magazine! 🎂🎉 Celebrating 9 years of curiosity driven science journalism, they’ve brought fascinating stories to life. Check out this thread of our favorites over the years! Here’s to many more insightful articles. @knowablemag.bsky.social
Inside the teenage brain, emotions and reasoning may not always move at the same speed. #BAVC vist.ly/5q8gg
The Defensive Brain: Why Teens Sometimes Misinterpret Criticism
Inside the teenage brain, emotions and reasoning may not always move at the same speed.
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Researcher SeungHyun Lee designed the image using a combination of his own photography and sketches, plus a dash of AI. vist.ly/5q7zp
Neuroscientist’s Art Highlights Social Behavior Across Species
Researcher SeungHyun Lee designed the image using a combination of his own photography and sketches, plus a dash of AI.
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition characterized by excessively inattentive, hyperactive, or impulsive behaviors. #ADHDAwareness vist.ly/5p2k5
Understanding ADHD
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition characterized by excessively inattentive, hyperactive, or impulsive behaviors.
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Even light phone users get anxious when their mobile device is taken away for a short time. vist.ly/5pwgj
Nomophobia: The Fear of Being Without a Mobile Phone
Even light phone users get anxious when their mobile device is taken away for a short time.
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Neuroscientist Earl K. Miller proposes a new way to think about how brain waves act as an organizing force powering cognition. vist.ly/5ptss
How Does the Brain Control Itself?
Neuroscientist Earl K. Miller proposes a new way to think about how brain waves act as an organizing force powering cognition.
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Harvard researcher Pieter Cohen spoke to BrainFacts about what the labels on U.S. supplements claiming to boost cognitive function don’t tell you. vist.ly/5ppt6
What Should I Know About “Brain Health” Supplements?
Harvard researcher Pieter Cohen spoke to BrainFacts about what the labels on U.S. supplements claiming to boost cognitive function don’t tell you.
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South Africa-based researcher Olivia Matshabane‘s work is dedicated to ensuring African values and knowledge meaningfully inform neuroethics principles on the continent and globally. vist.ly/5piwd
How African Perspectives on Neuroethics Benefit People and the Globe
South Africa-based researcher Olivia Matshabane‘s work is dedicated to ensuring African values and knowledge meaningfully inform neuroethics principles on the continent and globally.
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What can happen in the brain when we fall in love? Or separate from our loved ones? vist.ly/5pdwd
Love: How the Brain Creates Human Connection
What can happen in the brain when we fall in love? Or separate from our loved ones?
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Precision brain maps suggest ADHD profiles vary across patients. This finding may explain why the common drug Ritalin works for some, but not others. #ADHDAwareness vist.ly/5pd79
Brain Maps Explain Mixed Responses to ADHD Meds
Precision brain maps suggest ADHD profiles vary across patients. This finding may explain why the common drug Ritalin works for some, but not others.
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Researchers looked at brain waves to explore how the psychoactive compound DMT temporarily disrupts people’s thoughts and grasp on their own identity. vist.ly/5p7uq
Interpreting the Brain Wave Patterns of People Taking DMT
Researchers looked at brain waves to explore how the psychoactive compound DMT temporarily disrupts people’s thoughts and grasp on their own identity.
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Antibodies made by the immune system can sometimes target human brain cells, producing psychiatric symptoms. Researchers aim to better identify such rare cases as well as fine-tune treatments. @knowablemag.bsky.social
How Psychosis May Arise When the Body Attacks Itself
Antibodies made by the immune system can sometimes target human brain cells, producing psychiatric symptoms. Researchers aim to better identify such rare cases as well as fine-tune treatments.
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Learn how common ADHD medications like stimulants operate in the brain. #ADHDawareness vist.ly/5nqkq
How ADHD Meds Affect the Brain
Learn how common ADHD medications like stimulants operate in the brain.
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Before you blame dopamine for your bad habits, hear the evidence. #BAVC26 vist.ly/5niry
Investigating Dopamine's Role in Reward and Motivation
Before you blame dopamine for your bad habits, hear the evidence.
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ICYMI: Human Brain Organoids Grow in Mice Missing Much of Their Cortex. Thisa and other neuroscience news you may have missed in September 2026. vist.ly/5m2nb
ICYMI: Human Brain Organoids Grow in Mice Missing Much of Their Cortex
And other neuroscience news you may have missed in September 2026.
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ICYMI: Human Brain Organoids Grow in Mice Missing Much of Their Cortex. Thisa and other neuroscience news you may have missed in September 2026. vist.ly/5mrqg
ICYMI: Human Brain Organoids Grow in Mice Missing Much of Their Cortex
And other neuroscience news you may have missed in September 2026.
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Researchers looked at brain waves to explore how the psychoactive compound DMT temporarily disrupts people’s thoughts and grasp on their own identity. vist.ly/5mj6f
Interpreting the Brain Wave Patterns of People Taking DMT
Researchers looked at brain waves to explore how the psychoactive compound DMT temporarily disrupts people’s thoughts and grasp on their own identity.
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The hands of a clock move at a constant pace. Yet, our experience of time is anything but. This video won the People's Choice award in the 2026 Brain Awareness Video Contest. 🏆 #BAVC26 vist.ly/5mejx
Fast and Slow Time
The hands of a clock move at a constant pace. Yet, our experience of time is anything but.
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Print out 3D-printed models of different animal brains for the classroom, lab — or just for fun. vist.ly/5megt
3D-Printed Animal Brain Models
Print out 3D-printed models of different animal brains for the classroom, lab — or just for fun.
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In this 2006 #JNeurosci Symposium, Deisseroth & colleagues explored advances in #optogenetic technology. The authors presented their Symposium at the SfN annual meeting that year. www.jneurosci.org/content/26/4...
Next-Generation Optical Technologies for Illuminating Genetically Targeted Brain Circuits
Emerging technologies from optics, genetics, and bioengineering are being combined for studies of intact neural circuits. The rapid progression of such interdisciplinary “optogenetic” approaches has e...
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Society for Neuroscience@sfn.org · 4w agoCongratulations to SfN members Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel on being awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine. Learn more about their work. 🔗 vist.ly/5m4w7 📸: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach #neurosky #neuroskyence
Congratulations again to Karl Deisseroth! Turns out the sweetest reward is sharing the moment with family. 🧠❤️
Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️@snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 4w agoKarl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his family: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
A protein from algae helped change brain research. Meet the science behind the 2026 medicine Nobel and the technique called optogenetics. vist.ly/5m4u9 #NobelPrize
Optogenetics Earns 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
Three researchers shared the prize for their work establishing optogenetics, a research tool that uses light to influence living cells.
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Can a brain really shrink from overusing AI? This children's tale ponders this question and later explains some of the science behind brain shrinkage. #BAVC26 🥉
Honey, I Shrunk the Kid’s Brain! The Science Behind Cerebral Atrophy
Can a brain really shrink from overusing AI? This children's tale ponders this question and later explains some of the science behind brain shrinkage.
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A protein from algae helped change brain research. Meet the science behind the 2026 medicine Nobel and the technique called optogenetics. vist.ly/5m4u9 #NobelPrize
Optogenetics Earns 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
Three researchers shared the prize for their work establishing optogenetics, a research tool that uses light to influence living cells.
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One of the least complicated creatures on earth taught us all about the most complicated object in the universe – the human brain. #NobelPrize vist.ly/5m4nt
Lighting Up The Brain With Optogenetics
One of the least complicated creatures on earth taught us all about the most complicated object in the universe – the human brain.
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Have you ever wondered why it takes mere milliseconds for your body to sense vibrations? 🥈 #BAVC26 vist.ly/5m4c8
Feeling Frequencies: How the Nervous System Detects Vibrations
Have you ever wondered why it takes mere milliseconds for your body to sense vibrations?
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