April 21, 2025
(Wired) – LG has licensed tech that claims to interpret TV users’ feelings and convictions. The company will use this data to more directly target the ads it’s showing to users of its smart TV platform. LG TVs will soon … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Wired) – Only six of the 21 robots in the race crossed the finish line, highlighting just how far humanoids are from keeping up with their real human counterparts. About 12,000 human athletes ran in a half-marathon race in Beijing … Read More
April 21, 2025
(BBC) – Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues. But while this can offer huge benefits … Read More
April 21, 2025
(The Guardian) – Men who have virtual “wives” and neurodiverse people using chatbots to help them navigate relationships are among a growing range of ways in which artificial intelligence is transforming human connection and intimacy. Dozens of readers shared their … Read More
April 17, 2025
(NPR) – Patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease may soon benefit from a powerful treatment option: stem-cell transplants. In a pair of small studies designed primarily to test safety, two teams of researchers found that stem cells transplanted into the brains … Read More
April 17, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Nearly 1 in 3 dementia cases linked with audiometric hearing loss, study suggests The findings mean that “up to 32% of population-level dementia risk could potentially be delayed or prevented if we completely treated hearing loss, assuming … Read More
April 16, 2025
(Undark) – For some patients, removing brain tissue can help treat OCD and other disorders. But ethical concerns remain. Originally known as psychosurgery, this uncommon approach to mental health care involves operating on the brain to alter its function. After … Read More
April 15, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Mass General Brigham officials say the hospital hasn’t found any “environmental risk” behind these cases, though the nurses’ union is still conducting its own investigation. Something strange could be happening at a Massachusetts hospital. At least six employees … Read More
April 15, 2025
(NBC News) – One in 31 children in the United States are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder by their 8th birthday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. The finding, based on an analysis of medical records from … Read More
April 14, 2025
(New York Times) – Users needing emergency care or hospitalization were more likely to later develop dementia, researchers reported. That does not prove cannabis was the cause. Middle-aged and older adults who sought hospital or emergency room care because of … Read More
April 14, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties Our exchange raises a troubling question: Are long-Covid patients’ cognitive symptoms getting better or regressing? And are those patients being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, or … Read More
April 14, 2025
(New York Times Magazine) – With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it. As time passed, Swanson began to grow uneasy. He and his colleagues … Read More
April 14, 2025
(The Nation) – Internal Family Systems is the latest therapy trend for a traumatized United States. But can splitting ourselves into parts be a science? In trying to get me to home in on my skepticism—or what he would call … Read More
April 10, 2025
(NPR) – Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and offer a new way … Read More
April 8, 2025
(Vox) – According to a study that followed more than 280,000 people in Wales, older adults who received a vaccine against shingles were 20 percent less likely to develop dementia in the seven years that followed vaccination than those who … Read More
April 7, 2025
(CNET) – Scientists used a brain implant and generative AI to give a woman her voice back and help her talk in near real time. It’s one example of how generative AI tools — using the same underlying technology that … Read More
April 7, 2025
(Ars Technica) – As AI hype permeates the Internet, tech and business leaders are already looking toward the next step. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a machine with human-like intelligence and capabilities. If today’s AI systems are on … Read More
April 4, 2025
(New York Times) – A growing body of evidence now shows that cannabis is destructive to male fertility. Experts have long known that tobacco and alcohol use can impact male fertility. And since at least the 1970s, researchers have suspected … Read More
April 3, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Backers of the new tech say it will free us to be creative, but studies show that avoiding mental effort can cause your brain to atrophy. After years of building up my ability to articulate nuanced … Read More
April 3, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Neuralink, Synchron, and Neuracle are expanding clinical trials and trying to zero in on an actual product. Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Aeon) – Long believed to be particularly associated with males, new research is revolutionising our understanding of autism Almost every autism-related website, research paper or journal article tells us that autism occurs much more frequently in boys, on average about … Read More
April 1, 2025
(The Atlantic) – In my case, that person who was in mind-numbing pain, unable to read, unable to write, unable to Google things or look at screens, unable to drive, drained by talking on the phone, spiraling in despair, and … Read More
April 1, 2025
(The Economist) – Ms Huitson is not alone in having a dysfunction in the brain mistaken for one in the mind. Evidence is accumulating that an array of infections can, in some cases, trigger conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, tics, … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Bloomberg via MSN) – Aaron is one of at least seven people who have died in the US from symptoms linked to the drug Leqembi over the past two years, according to a Bloomberg review of federal records obtained through … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Nature) – Improvements to brain–computer interfaces are bringing the technology closer to natural conversational speed. A brain-reading implant that translates neural signals into audible speech has allowed a woman with paralysis to hear what she intends to say nearly instantly. … Read More
