Psychology

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How Pretend Play Works—and Why Apes Do It Too Science

How Pretend Play Works—and Why Apes Do It Too

Pretend play was long considered uniquely human, but a landmark bonobo study suggests imagination evolved millions of years ago. Here's how make-belie...

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How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works Science

How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works

Scientists have mapped a dedicated brain circuit that drives chronic pain separately from acute pain, opening the door to targeted treatments that cou...

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How Schizophrenia Hijacks the Brain's Reality Filter Science

How Schizophrenia Hijacks the Brain's Reality Filter

Schizophrenia disrupts the brain circuits responsible for updating beliefs with new information, trapping patients in outdated or false perceptions of...

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What Is Universal Grammar and Do All Languages Share It? Science

What Is Universal Grammar and Do All Languages Share It?

Linguists have debated for decades whether all human languages share a hidden blueprint. A landmark study of 1,700 languages offers new answers about...

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What Is BMI and Why Experts Say It's Flawed Health

What Is BMI and Why Experts Say It's Flawed

Body mass index has guided medical decisions for decades, yet scientists and physicians increasingly warn that this 200-year-old formula misclassifies...

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What Are Astrocytes and How They Shape Your Memory Science

What Are Astrocytes and How They Shape Your Memory

Astrocytes, the brain's star-shaped glial cells, were long dismissed as mere support staff. New research reveals they actively encode fear memories, r...

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How Sports Betting Apps Are Designed to Hook You Technology

How Sports Betting Apps Are Designed to Hook You

Sports betting apps use sophisticated psychological design — from variable rewards to microbetting — to keep users gambling. Here's how the mechanics...

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GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic May Sharply Cut Depression and Anxiety Health

GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic May Sharply Cut Depression and Anxiety

A landmark Swedish study of over 95,000 patients published in The Lancet Psychiatry finds semaglutide users experienced 42% lower risk of worsening me...

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What Are Silent Synapses and How They Shape Memory Science

What Are Silent Synapses and How They Shape Memory

Silent synapses are dormant brain connections that contain NMDA receptors but lack AMPA receptors. Around 30% of synapses in the adult cortex are sile...

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Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression Health

Ozempic: Unexpected Benefits Against Depression

A large Swedish study published in The Lancet Psychiatry reveals that semaglutide (Ozempic) reduces the need for psychiatric care by 42%, opening a de...

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How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain Science

How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain

Social media exploits a window of extreme neurological vulnerability in adolescents, hijacking dopamine pathways and reshaping brain structures involv...

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Medical Cannabis: Ineffective Against Anxiety and Depression Science

Medical Cannabis: Ineffective Against Anxiety and Depression

The largest systematic review ever conducted, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, concludes that medical cannabis is not effective in treating anxiety...

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