Current reporting, research and professional developments across Neuropsychology, curated for psychologists and behavioral-health professionals.
IntroductionAnxiety is highly prevalent in older adults and often co-occurs with neurodegenerative disorders, worsening cognitive decline and quality of life. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has shown…
BackgroundPrevious work has shown that endurance training is associated with structural and functional plasticity in prefrontal, hippocampal, cerebellar and network level regions using both cross sectional and…
BackgroundCognitive fatigue is among the most common and disabling long-term sequelae of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), with limited effective treatment options. We report a case of refractory post-mTBI cognitive…
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of long-term cognitive impairment, with deficits in episodic memory among the most common and disabling consequences. Although biological sex is increasingly recognized as an…
Scientists in South Korea have finally worked out how our brains flush away waste, solving a mystery that has puzzled experts for 250 years. The discovery offers real hope for future dementia ...
An international initiative establishes the first consensus framework for vocal biomarkers, creating standardized definitions to accelerate voice-based disease diagnostics.
Focused ultrasound effectively opens the blood-brain barrier in gliomas, proving that brain tumors are highly receptive to targeted, size-optimized drug delivery.
Learning relies on refining the strength of existing connections rather than building new neural pathways, pointing to a shared computational principle in human and artificial intelligence.
Controlled breathing interventions significantly reduce substance cravings across alcohol, nicotine, opioids, and stimulants, offering a scalable adjunct to standard addiction therapies.
Noticing gradual changes in a loved one’s memory, language or thinking skills can naturally be stressful for any family.
A new study reveals that mice pay a physical reward cost to gain advance information, driven by a distinct population of orbitofrontal cortex neurons that encode the intrinsic value of knowledge.
A person’s sleeping brain may reveal warning signs of dementia long before memory problems begin. Researchers used machine learning to analyze EEG recordings from about 7,000 adults and found that an ...
New research suggests the two-dose Shingrix vaccine could also lower the risk of dementia, adding to its benefits for adults 50 and older.
Blood tests that can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease up to 20 years before symptoms appear are about to become available in Australia.
Experts say the first 1,000 days after conception is a critical window for brain health ...
When intake runs too low, attention and mental sharpness can suffer, since the fatty acids in brain cell membranes directly affect how well our nerve cells talk with each other. “This disconnect can ...
Misdiagnosis is also common because dementia can look like a mental health condition in women, Chadha explains: "Women often have more depressive symptoms; they might be delusional, they might have ...
The discovery hints at a new way to spot risk earlier, but scientists caution it's far from a definitive test.
A simple action that some of us do and some of us do not, can help the brain tune itself and thereby assist sleep and mood – and also reduce the risk of dementia.
(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) The aging human brain is fascinating, because in some ways, it improves with age – but we generally hear more about how it declines. That's understandable! After all, ...
The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from harmful substances, but it also prevents many medicines from reaching their target. Researchers are investigating whether focused ultrasound could ...
IntroductionIt is well known that standardized neuropsychological testing frequently fails to capture the true capacity and full range of abilities in individuals with minimally verbal autism spectrum disorder (mvASD)…
Transposable elements are hypothesized to have driven gene regulatory innovation, yet their contributions to primate brain development at the cell type level remain underexplored. Here, we use single-cell multiomics data…
The brainstem is a highly conserved integrative hub that is essential for arousal, emotion, and motor control, which are functions profoundly affected in Parkinsonâs disease (PD). However, low signal-to-noise ratios in…
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is a common complication of diabetes with no disease modifying treatments. Despite the prevalence, the molecular mechanisms of DPN are not fully characterized. In this study, we…
A study based on almost 65,000 people from the UK found that sugar rationing may be linked to more than a fifth lower chance of dementia.
Results showed that people who experienced sugar rationing prior to birth and up to 1 year of age had a 21% lower risk of dementia, and those who endured sugar rationing up to two years old had a 23% ...
Jane McClenaghan says a pilot study has found that older adults who combined calorie reduction with time-restricted eating showed greater improvements in memory, learning and problem-solving than thos ...
Musical improvisation suppresses self-critical prefrontal regions in adults and activates intrinsic reward structures in children, demonstrating that generative creativity is an innate brain mechanism.
A new study presents a mathematical framework showing that organisms shift abruptly from reactive to memory-based strategies only when energy resources exceed a critical threshold, with memory offering peak utility under…
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