Stroke brain repair stalls because the damage leaves nothing to grow along. Duke filled the gap with a scaffold in mice, and the immune cells surprised them.
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Sea Squirt Anti-Aging: What the Study Actually Found
Sea squirt anti-aging headlines are everywhere right now. The study behind them was published in 2022, ran only in mice, and its authors added a caveat.
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Sense of Impending Doom: Why It Has a Medical Name
A sense of impending doom is a real clinical symptom, not an overreaction. Here is the Latin name doctors gave it, and when that feeling needs urgent care.
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Why Slow Breathing Makes You Bolder, Not Calmer
Slow breathing is meant to calm you down. But in a brain scanner, a long exhale made people bolder instead – and it moved just one side of the scale, not both.
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Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Appear 7 Years Before Plaques
Early signs of Alzheimer’s showed up in brain scans seven years before plaques did – and the first change was not shrinkage. It was a cortex that looked better.
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ADHD and Creativity: What the Research Actually Says
ADHD and creativity really are linked — but not the way the headlines say. Here is what the research actually found, including the part that gets left out.
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Why Do I Push People Away? The Test You Run First
Why do I push people away? Usually it is not fear of closeness but a prediction you already made – and research found the prediction tends to come true.
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Why the Human Brain Develops So Slowly: Years, Not Weeks
Why the human brain develops so slowly: brain cells that finish in about three weeks in mice take four to eight years in people, and the delay may be the point.
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Poor Sleep and Loneliness: Which One Comes First?
Poor sleep and loneliness travel together — but a Norwegian study that followed the same people for over 20 years found the arrow mostly runs one way.
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Feeling Invisible at Work? The Problem Isn’t That You’re Too Quiet
Feeling invisible at work isn’t about being too quiet. Researchers found being left out still hurts even when a computer does it. Here’s what that changes.