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
March 31, 2025
(MedPage Today) – Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak. A … Read More
March 31, 2025
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (vol. 21, no. 4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 28, 2025
(UPI) – A study published Wednesday indicates that low levels of a key brain chemical among overweight patients with high-fat diets is responsible for a loss of pleasure from food. Researchers from the University of California-Berkeley say they may have … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – After college, as her friends soared, her life became an endless round of psychiatrists, institutionalizations and outpatient programs. An incomplete list of the drugs she has been prescribed: Depakote, Prozac, Ambien, Abilify, Klonopin, Lamictal, Provigil, Lithium. … Read More
March 24, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – Measuring pain, one of the most fundamental tasks in medicine, remains one of the least precise, a shortcoming that helped fuel the nation’s opioid crisis. In an era of genomic medicine and artificial intelligence, doctors … Read More
March 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? In March 2009, after a long night on duty at the hospital, Emmeline Lagrange took a deep breath and … Read More
March 24, 2025
(NPR) – Fewer than half of the claims in the top videos accurately match the scientific criteria that form an ADHD diagnosis. Many oversimplified or overstated the symptoms of ADHD and weren’t backed up by reliable sources. Many content creators … Read More
March 21, 2025
(UPI) – A team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., was set to connect two Parkinson’s patients to a new type of deep brain stimulation device, or “brain pacemaker,” developed by Medtronic Inc., on Friday in … Read More
March 21, 2025
(The Telegraph) – Born with a hyper-sensitive sense of smell, Joy Milne has teamed up with Professor Barran to work on diagnosing early cases of the disease Joy Milne’s life has changed immeasurably since the day she ambushed an eminent … Read More
March 20, 2025
(TIME) – Severance, the extremely popular Apple TV+ series about office workers who undergo brain surgery so that their home selves have no knowledge or memory of their working selves, and vice versa, is often described as science fiction. That’s … Read More
March 20, 2025
(Wired) – The company has partnered with Nvidia to develop “cognitive AI,” which it says will allow people with severe physical disabilities to have more natural interactions with the world around them. Neurotech company Synchron has unveiled the latest version … Read More
March 20, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The U.S. is making progress against one of its most devastating public-health threats: drug overdoses. Over the 12 months ended in October 2024, the country saw a 25% decline in overdose deaths compared with the same … Read More
March 20, 2025
(The Economist) – Our podcast on science and technology. Scientists’ understanding of the disease has long been incomplete. Now an old idea is gaining traction Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 30 million people around the world and there is no … Read More
March 19, 2025
(Aeon) – Millions are turning to an unregulated herbal extract to curb their opioid addiction. But do the risks outweigh the benefits? Harm reduction is a contested and evolving concept that was first used in the 1980s as a shorthand … Read More
March 19, 2025
(NBC News) – The new analysis by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse also looked into how the medications are being misused. Prescriptions for ADHD medications have been spiking in recent years, with the sharpest increase among middle-aged … Read More
March 19, 2025
(BBC) – Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth after their eight-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) unexpectedly became a nine-month enforced stay. Now, their recovery begins. “Space is by far the most extreme environment … Read More
