Psychology

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What Are SuperAgers—and Why Their Brains Stay Young Science

What Are SuperAgers—and Why Their Brains Stay Young

SuperAgers are adults over 80 whose memory rivals people decades younger. Scientists have discovered they produce twice as many new neurons and carry...

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How the Gut-Brain Axis Works—Your Second Brain Science

How the Gut-Brain Axis Works—Your Second Brain

The gut contains 500 million neurons and produces over 90% of the body's serotonin. The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional communication highway linkin...

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How Tinnitus Works—and Why Your Brain Won't Stop Ringing Health

How Tinnitus Works—and Why Your Brain Won't Stop Ringing

Tinnitus affects roughly one in seven adults worldwide, yet there is no cure. Here's how phantom sound originates in the brain, what triggers it, and...

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How Psilocybin Therapy Works—and Why It May Transform Psychiatry Health

How Psilocybin Therapy Works—and Why It May Transform Psychiatry

Psilocybin therapy combines a psychedelic compound from mushrooms with structured psychotherapy to rewire brain networks linked to depression, with Ph...

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How Consumer Sentiment Is Measured—and Why It Moves Markets Economy

How Consumer Sentiment Is Measured—and Why It Moves Markets

Consumer sentiment surveys gauge how optimistic or pessimistic households feel about the economy. Here's how they work, who runs them, and whether the...

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How the Replication Crisis Works—and Why It Shakes Science Science

How the Replication Crisis Works—and Why It Shakes Science

Half of social-science findings cannot be reproduced by independent researchers, exposing deep structural problems in how studies are published, funde...

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How Cognitive Reserve Works—and Why It Shields Your Brain Health

How Cognitive Reserve Works—and Why It Shields Your Brain

Cognitive reserve is the brain's ability to resist damage from aging and disease by recruiting alternative neural pathways. Built through education, r...

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How Fertility Rates Work—and Why They Keep Falling Science

How Fertility Rates Work—and Why They Keep Falling

The total fertility rate measures how many children women have on average, and it is plunging worldwide. Here is how demographers calculate it, what d...

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How Courts Treat Social Media as a Defective Product Technology

How Courts Treat Social Media as a Defective Product

A legal revolution is underway as courts apply traditional product liability law to social media platforms, treating addictive design features like in...

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How Smell Tests Detect Alzheimer's Before Memory Fades Science

How Smell Tests Detect Alzheimer's Before Memory Fades

Scientists have discovered that the sense of smell declines years before memory loss in Alzheimer's disease. Simple, low-cost olfactory tests may offe...

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How AI Therapy Chatbots Work—and What Science Says Health

How AI Therapy Chatbots Work—and What Science Says

Millions now use AI chatbots for emotional support and mental health advice. Experts explain how these tools work, what research shows about their ben...

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How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain Science

How Autism and ADHD Overlap in the Brain

Up to 70% of people with autism also have ADHD. New brain-imaging and genetic research reveals why these two conditions so often travel together—and w...

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