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In a lab study of 81 university students, those with high depression scores but no diagnosis remembered target-linked words as well as low-symptom peers. An alerting cue evened out emotional…
Read articleA 2026 EEG study found that image memorability predicted recognition strongly, z = 9.17, p < 0.001, and the N400 encoding signal tracked memorability after later recognition success was incl…
Read articleCoffee is widely framed as cognitively friendly, but a 2026 prospective study from Boscaini et al. published in Nature Communications used shotgun metagenomics, metabolomics, and cognitive t…
Read articleA 2025 Nature Aging study found that hippocampal ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1) rose with age in mouse neurons, tracked poorer cognition, and became experimentally reversible in old mice. Thi…
Read articleDreams transform waking life rather than replaying it directly. In a 2026 Communications Psychology study of 3,366 reports, dreams were more visual, spatial, social, and bizarre than waking …
Read articleA preprint in 84 older adults with epilepsy found that abnormal Alzheimer's-related blood biomarkers were common, but the biomarker categories did not line up neatly with cognitive impairmen…
Read articleSome sleep apnea patients stay sleepy even when their CPAP is used 6+ hours a night and apnea events have been driven back to normal range. A 2026 cross-sectional study of 65 PAP-adherent ad…
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