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A group of researchers studied the personality traits most common in conspiracy-brained people, discovering insecurity might be to blame.

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories

People who stop taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are finding that their hunger comes back -- with a vengeance.

Neuroscience and Brain

Something Grim Is Happening to People Who Go Off GLP-1s

By Sharon Adarlo

Regulators at the Cyberspace Administration of China have proposed new laws meant to protect AI users' mental health.

China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users

People have been losing weight on retatrutide, more powerful than GLP-1 agonist drugs, but they are buying them from unapproved sources.

People Jabbing Themselves With Black Market “GLP-3” Drugs

By Sharon Adarlo

A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

Neuroscience and Brain

Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists said a novel compound can arrest early stages of Alzheimer's disease in mice brains, setting the stage for a possible cure.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Identify Possible Game Changing Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease That Could Control It Like High Cholesterol

By Sharon Adarlo

A woman working for a generative AI image startup says the tech led her into a manic bipolar episode, which triggered psychosis.

Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.

Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI

Software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth's setup allowing rats to play "Doom II" has received a major upgrade.

Neuroscience and Brain

Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that lab mice that were released into a large, enclosed field were almost immediately less anxious.

When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life

By Victor Tangermann

A video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty toppling over in a Brazilian parking lot.

Replica Statue of Liberty Topples in Urban Hellscape

By Victor Tangermann

A large number of very young users are engaging with violent — and often sexually violent — interactions with unregulated companion chatbots.

The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.

Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

The company 2wai went viral after it released an advertisement showing its AI product resurrecting a dead grandmother.

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

Two years after a 13-year-old girl's suicide, her parents say her phone still gets notifications from the AI bots that drove her to death.

Years After a Girl’s Death, the AIs That Killed Her Are Still Sending Notifications to Her Phone

By Sharon Adarlo

A first-of-its-kind study in Australia found that giving men a common antidepressant helped reduce domestic violence rates.

Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence

Researchers have found a significant link between screen time and diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds

By Victor Tangermann

in a new episode of "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian's doctor told her that she has "holes" in her brain that are related to "low activity."

Neuroscience and Brain

Kim Kardashian’s Doctor Finds Holes in Her Brain, Signs of “Low Activity”

By Victor Tangermann

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

By Sharon Adarlo

New research found that smartphone usage in children led to higher risk of poorer mental health across several categories.

Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early

By Frank Landymore

Administering an amino acid used to treat high blood pressure also appears to reverse signs of dementia in mice.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Intrigued by Old Drug That Reverses Signs of Alzheimer’s in Mice

By Frank Landymore

Using a Neuralink brain implant, a man who is quadriplegic can once again play video games like "Battlefield 6."

Paralyzed Man Playing First-Person Shooter Using Brain Implant

By Frank Landymore

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

Man Loses Password to Chip Embedded Inside His Body

By Sharon Adarlo

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It turns out that the mere presence of a guy dressed as Batman is enough to turn dead inside commuters into momentary altruists.

Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present

By Frank Landymore

Busy parents are increasingly turning to OpenAI's ChatGPT for child rearing advice, medical information, and to entertain their kids.

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers at MIT have invented "Circulatronics," a medical platform they say enables non-invasive treatment of neuroinflammation.

MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips

AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

By Frank Landymore

Schools around the world are banning phones, and the results can be unexpected. For instance, schools are getting loud again.

Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids

The team showed that the brain scan analyzing technique could generate accurate descriptions of a video someone was watching.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Transcribe Your Thoughts From an MRI Scan

By Frank Landymore

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Danish Hussain recently suggested that Tesla's Optimus robot will be interfacing with Neuralink brain-implant devices.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink Head of Surgery Says Robot-Human Interface Happening “Very Soon”

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Sam Altman has reportedly tapped a Caltech engineer known for researching ultrasound to read the brain to lead his Neuralink competitor.

Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found AI models trained on shortform, clickbait-y content experienced irreversible cognitive decline.

Training AI on “Brain Rot” Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds

OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.

OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI twice relaxed ChatGPT restrictions around self-harm and suicide discussions, an amended lawsuit over a minor's suicide alleges.

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New findings show that these diabetes and weight-loss drugs may actually change the way our bodies process alcohol.

Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic

Some popular protein supplements had well over a thousand percent of a safe daily limit for daily lead exposure.

Neuroscience and Brain

Popular Meal Replacement Drink Contains So Much Lead That Doctors Are Aghast

By Frank Landymore

Now on year seven of his all-meat diet, the pseudo-intellectual is reportedly suffering from a nefarious "spiritual attack."

Neuroscience and Brain

Strange New Health Issues Put Jordan Peterson in ICU

Scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based treatment that successfully reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice.

Neuroscience and Brain

Nanoparticle Treatment Reverses Alzheimer’s in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Brain organoids, miniature human brains grown in a lab, can be used by scientists for experiments but some people are horrified by the idea.

Neuroscience and Brain

People Are Horrified by Lab-Grown Human Brains

By Sharon Adarlo

An AI startup called friend has plastered the New York City subway system in advertisements -- and furious riders are vandalizing them.

New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign

People from the ages of 18 to 39 have suffered an increase in cognitive issues in the span of more than a decade.

Huge Proportion of Young Americans Now Reporting Serious Cognitive Issues

By Sharon Adarlo

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre and clearly AI-generated video on Truth Social about a QAnon conspiracy theory.

Trump’s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video

By Victor Tangermann

Second-year Lakers head coach JJ Redick gave fans pause after sharing he's been having long talks with a virtual buddy.

NBA Coach JJ Redick Says He Spends Hours Talking to His “Friend” ChatGPT

A researcher went back over 100 years of brain science that lead him to a radical conclusion about consciousness.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We’re All Wrong About Root of Consciousness in Our Brains

Trump's anti-Tylenol expert received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.

Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show

By Victor Tangermann

A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura, who shot and killed four people, had CTE.

Neuroscience and Brain

Medical Examiners Found Something Grim About the Brain of the Gunman Who Shot Up the NFL Building

By Victor Tangermann

The mass adoption of AI chatbots is resulting in a marked increase in psychiatric patients arriving to mental health facilities.

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.

Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

By Victor Tangermann

A research team says that for the first time in history, it's successfully treated Huntington's disease, a devastating, inherited disorder.

In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington’s for the First Time

By Victor Tangermann

Those "magic mushroom" edibles may contain a lot more than manufacturers are letting on — if they're not complete bogus.

Scientists Tested What’s Really in “Psilocybin” Chocolate and Found Something Alarming

By Frank Landymore

RFK Jr. said there was a possible connection between video games and a rise in gun violence without providing evidence.

RFK Junior Says Mass Shootings Are Being Caused by Video Games

By Frank Landymore

After less than a month of being exposed to microplastics in their diet, the mice developed clear dementia symptoms.

Neuroscience and Brain

Lab Mice Exposed to Microplastics Show Signs of Dementia

By Frank Landymore

Researchers are working on a pill that could allow patients' brains to recover from a traumatic injury or stroke.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Intrigued by Pill That May Heal Brain After Stroke or Brain Injury

By Victor Tangermann

A clinical psychologist warns of the powerful delusions induced by AI chatbots, but thinks "psychosis" doesn't quite describe what's going on.

Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of the Catholic school shooting that killed two children and maimed several others, RFK Jr. is suggesting SSRIs are to blame.

The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Are cases of "AI psychosis" caused by manipulative "dark patterns" employed in chatbots like ChatGPT? Some experts say yes.

AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A California family is suing OpenAI over the death by suicide of their teenage son, who'd confided in ChatGPT about his suicidality.

After Their Son’s Suicide, His Parents Were Horrified to Find His Conversations With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Evidence shows that walking in nature can instantly boost your attention span — but scientists can't agree why.

Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why Just Walking In Nature Appears to Quickly Heal Your Brain Rot

By Frank Landymore

A new analysis found that a ton of mental health problems are associated with AI — and more than two dozen chatbots are implicated.

Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues

By Noor Al-Sibai

New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do easier than ever before.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Vocalize the “Inner Voices” of People Who Can’t Speak

By Noor Al-Sibai

A troubling new IVF startup claims it can predict a child's IQ and risk of disease based on the parent's race and genetic testing.

New IVF Startup Claims It Can Predict an Embryo’s IQ