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The Rundown Trust: Sam Altman recruits top scientist to read minds

MERGE LABS Sam Altman recruits top scientist to read mindsImage source: Ideogram / The Rundown The Rundown: Sam Altman just tapped Caltech biomolecular engineer Mikhail Shapiro to join the founding team of Merge Labs and help lead investor talks for the soon‑to‑launch brain‑computer interface startup alongside … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Storytelling and the Brain … how memories are formed. Comment: Fascinated by this because TBI with amnesia means no stories and aphantasia is about no visuals. I watch Podcast grasp it deeply in the moment but then like a sheet of rain on a window pane, it is gone forever more except if there is a predictive prompt, then there might be some recognition.

How Storytelling Style Shapes the Way the Brain Forms Memories Featured Neuroscience ·October 20, 2025 Summary: The way an event is described—through feelings or sensory detail—changes how the brain stores and recalls it. In this study, participants listened to stories that … Continue reading

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‘Breakthrough’ blood test detects chronic fatigue in 92% of cases. Comment: Diagnosed with chronic fatigue which caused me great distress and exhaustion over a period of 6 years … called “Yuppie Disease” then.

‘Breakthrough’ blood test detects chronic fatigue in 92% of cases By Bronwyn Thompson October 07, 2025 People with ME/CFS can wait years for a diagnosis Photo by Marco Bianchetti/Unsplash View 1 Images Researchers believe they have developed the first dedicated blood … Continue reading

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Tiny Peptide Shows Powerful Brain Healing After Traumatic Injury FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience ·October 7, 2025 Summary: A small peptide called CAQK, composed of just four amino acids, has shown remarkable neuroprotective effects in mouse and pig models of traumatic brain injury. When injected intravenously, … Continue reading

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The Deep Mind: Neuralink’s speech-restoring device set for October trial. Comment: In my life, I knew a person very well who one day was at the Races and the following day she had a stroke and for nearly 10 years she had to have full-time care and worst of all she had no words, she could not speak. Then we all know the mammoth efforts of Charlie Bird … health is wealth but now there is hope so keep the curiosity in motion and seek answers, because if not already in place they are in the pipeline

HEALTH CARE It’s the stuff of science fiction, but this isn’t “Star Trek,” and it’s no longer fiction as Elon Musk’s Nearalink gears up to test another brain chip device, this time for those who have lost their ability to speak.  Neuralink … Continue reading

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ADHD brains really are built differently – we’ve just been blinded by the noise

Show Search ADHD & Autism ADHD brains really are built differently – we’ve just been blinded by the noise By Bronwyn Thompson September 08, 2025 Scientists eliminate the gray area when it comes to gray matter in ADHD brains Depositphotos View … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Finding direction. Comment: as a person with TBI spatial sense of direction was severely impacted … and 30 years on, I can only move in areas which I frequented TBI, but now even this is fading away

How the Brain Uses Objects to Find Direction FeaturedNeuroscience ·September 11, 2025 Summary: Scientists discovered how the brain uses objects to anchor our sense of direction, solving part of the mystery of spatial navigation. Experiments in mice showed that cells in … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Brain and extinguishing Fear Memories

How the Brain Extinguishes Fear Memories FeaturedNeuroscience ·September 3, 2025 Summary: Scientists have, for the first time, identified the brain signals linked to extinguishing fear memories in humans. Using implanted electrodes and advanced Representational Similarity Analysis, they showed that theta activity … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Big Five No More? New Study Uncovers Hidden Personality Traits

TGA could lead to a more precise understanding of personality and classifications in psychopathology. Credit: Neuroscience News Big Five No More? New Study Uncovers Hidden Personality Traits FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology ·August 26, 2025 Summary: For 40 years, the Big Five personality model has … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Have you ever compared your thumb to that of other people … longer thumbs can have bigger brains is the latest finding?

Study Links Thumb Length to Brain Size and Cognition Featured Neuroscience August 26, 2025 Summary: New research reveals that primates with longer thumbs tend to have larger brains, suggesting that manual dexterity and brain evolution developed together. The study analyzed 94 … Continue reading

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