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A randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of a digital cognitive training app called NeuroNation MED showed that the program may improve psychological quality of life in adults with ADHD. Compared to the group receiving standard treatment, app users did not perform better on objective cognitive tests. However, they were more likely to report that they felt their own cognitive functioning had improved. The paper was published in. Psychiatric Research Journal. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition. This means that it has to do with differences in how the brain grows and develops. It is characterized by persistent difficulties…
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Circle of Blue by Keith Schneider July 26, 2026 Real change in America occurs when citizen pressure from outside the centers of influence forces those inside to retreat. Perhaps the most compelling example of systemic change in the way the nation is run is currently unfolding in Iowa. Severe water pollution from crop and livestock production, associated with the second-highest and fastest-growing cancer rates in the country, became an election-year issue in Iowa, one of the nation’s most important agricultural states. Never before has industrial agriculture and its massive toxic emissions been under such intense public scrutiny and condemnation in…
New research published in Developmental cognitive neuroscience Newborn babies show stronger brain responses to infant cries than to spoken words. The findings suggest that an infant’s biological ability to produce specific sounds may shape how the brain processes auditory information from the moment it is born. The findings provide evidence that the biological link between vocalization and speech recognition begins much earlier in human development than scientists previously assumed. In adult human communication, listening and producing sounds are deeply interconnected processes. When adults listen to language, the areas of the brain responsible for mouth, tongue, and throat movements tend to…
Researchers from VIB, KU Leuven, UK DRI, and Muna Therapeutics, with funding including support from the ERC, have identified key biological changes that may help determine whether changes in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease ultimately lead to dementia. Using brain tissue donated from older adults with and without cognitive decline and samples from cognitively healthy centenarians, the research team uncovered distinct cellular programs and immune cell states associated with both disease progression and resistance. The findings, published in Nature Medicine, point to changes in microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, as a potentially important focus for future Alzheimer’s treatments. “This…
People diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder often have trouble recalling specific personal memories, a cognitive characteristic that appears to exacerbate the severity of their symptoms. New research shows that this memory pattern is associated with deficits in mental flexibility and working memory, suggesting it could be a new target for psychotherapy. The study was published in the journal Behavior Research and Therapy. Autobiographical memory allows people to mentally go back in time and recall detailed past experiences. Specific memories usually involve events that happened on a specific day and in a specific location. People who experience memories that are too general…
An 18-year follow-up study revealed that psychiatric research Evidence shows that children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder tend to face a wider range of challenges in different areas of their lives in adulthood than other children. This study evaluated adults diagnosed with ADHD in childhood, along with siblings without ADHD and an unrelated control group. The findings show that siblings of children with ADHD generally experience typical adult functioning, suggesting that many of the long-term difficulties are specific to the condition itself rather than family co-education. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, commonly known as ADHD, is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by a persistent pattern…
What if you could visit a place that doesn’t exist on maps? A place that’s whispered about online as if it were on the edge of the world we know. A place known simply as the “back room”. The Back Room is a fictional setting created by the Internet, imagined as an endless network of empty rooms lit by fluorescent lights. The concept centers around the idea of accidentally breaking out of normal reality and becoming trapped in this monotonous, labyrinthine environment with no clear exit. Since first emerging on the online bulletin board 4chan in 2019, the backroom phenomenon…
US military bases slow cleanup of toxic ‘permanent chemicals’Hundreds of U.S. military bases have delayed cleaning up PFAS for years, according to a new USA TODAY analysis of military records.It’s been nearly five years since Brandi and Brad Hiatt discovered that their well next to an Army base in Washington was contaminated with “forever chemicals.”They started using bottled water for everything from making coffee to rinsing toothbrushes. The couple even carted their two young children across town to bathe at the gym so they wouldn’t accidentally swallow contaminated bath water.The Army installed filters last year, but the wells remain contaminated.…
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to do away with a 50-year-old basic safety principle that has minimized the amount of radiation that people in the United States are exposed to and has been adopted around the world. Currently, facilities such as nuclear power plants, hospitals and academic institutions that use radioactive materials must ensure that radiation exposure is kept “as low as reasonably achievable”, or the ALARA principle. The NRC’s proposal would abandon that philosophy while maintaining a different standard for maximum radiation exposure.The two standards have worked together in radiation safety. Dose limits set the maximum amount of…