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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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Futurism: The_Byte: It’s Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science

Turning a Blind Eye / Earth & Energy It’s Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science bySharon Adarlo Aug 18, 1:37 PM EDT Kevin Carter / Getty / Futurism Houston, we have a problem. Junk Science In a major … Continue reading

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The Deep View: AI Rivalry Elon Musk’s Neuralink has a competitor

THE AI RIVALRY Altman’s new rival to Elon Musk’s Neuralink The Altman-Musk rivalry has reached its next frontier… brain implants. Sam Altman is co-founding a brain-computer interface startup called Merge Labs to directly compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, with OpenAI’s ventures team … Continue reading

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Neuroscience.com Brain’s Memory and Rhythm

Brain’s Memory Rhythm: How Neurons Sync to Store and Recall FeaturedNeuroscience ·August 11, 2025 Summary: Researchers studying people with epilepsy have discovered that nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe coordinate their firing with slow brain waves to encode and retrieve … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: How memories are structured. Comment: as a person who sustained a TBI with amnesia, this quote gives hope ““To date, when faced with an amnesic problem, we thought of attention deficits or difficulties in acquiring information. Our results suggest that there could also be a failure in these segmentation signals, in how information is structured in the brain”, they note.”

The Brain’s Ripple Effect: How Memories Are Structured FeaturedNeuroscience ·July 20, 2025 Summary: Researchers have identified ripple-type brain waves as key to how humans segment and store memories. By recording brain activity in epilepsy patients watching a TV episode, they found … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Brain … how it replays and compresses memories

How the Brain Replays and Compresses Memories FeaturedNeuroscience ·July 10, 2025 Summary: New research shows how the brain replays and organizes memories, even compressing long experiences into short, fixed-length neural sequences. Scientists recorded hundreds of hippocampal neurons in freely flying bats … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Brain Injury Could Explain Sudden Criminal Behavior. Quote: “This tract connects areas involved in emotion and decision-making, and when disrupted, may impair impulse control and moral reasoning.”

Brain Injury Could Explain Sudden Criminal Behavior FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology ·June 27, 2025 Summary: A new study has found that damage to a specific white matter pathway in the brain—the right uncinate fasciculus—may increase the likelihood of criminal or violent behavior following brain … Continue reading

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The Deep Dive: AI for the Good …

AI for Good: The potential of brain-computer interfaces in medicine Source: Midjourney v7 What if paralyzed stroke survivors could control robotic arms with their thoughts, or autistic children could engage in therapy through mind-controlled games? Researchers worldwide are making these … Continue reading

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