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(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418235503.htm) How thoughts influence what the eyes see
Apr 18th 2025, 23:55

A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418112909.htm) Integrative approach reveals promising candidates for Alzheimer's disease risk factors or targets for therapeutic intervention
Apr 18th 2025, 11:29

A new study provides solutions to the pressing need to identify factors that influence Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk or resistance while providing an avenue to explore potential biological markers and therapeutic targets. The researchers integrated computational and functional approaches that enabled them to identify not only specific genes whose alterations predicted increased AD risk in humans and behavioral impairments in AD fruit fly models but also showed that reversing the gene changes has a neuroprotective effect in living organisms.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418112902.htm) Insomnia and sleep medication use connected to disability in older adults
Apr 18th 2025, 11:29

For adults over the age of 65, higher levels of both insomnia symptoms and sleep medication use were associated with higher risk of disability a year later, according to a new study.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418112823.htm) Researchers use machine learning to predict exercise adherence
Apr 18th 2025, 11:28

Sticking to an exercise routine is a challenge many people face. But a research team is using machine learning to uncover what keeps individuals committed to their workouts.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418112818.htm) Screen time surprise under grandparents' care
Apr 18th 2025, 11:28

New research has found that nearly half of the time American children spend with their grandparents involves interacting with or watching media on a screen. How that screen time is managed can influence media habits and impact family relationships.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418112801.htm) Environmental variability promotes the evolution of cooperation among humans: A simulation-based analysis
Apr 18th 2025, 11:28

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new perspective for the reinterpretation of the variability selection hypothesis (VSH), which attributes improvement in human cognitive abilities to severe EV in Africa during the Middle Stone Age (MSA), as further relevant to the explanation of the evolution of sociality.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418112641.htm) Cognitively impaired older drivers are less likely to cause a crash when accompanied by a passenger
Apr 18th 2025, 11:26

Researchers examined variations in the likelihood of older drivers causing traffic crashes based on the presence of a passenger, utilizing nationwide traffic crash data between 2014 and 2020. Their analysis revealed that even drivers with cognitive impairment had a reduced risk of causing crashes when accompanied by a passenger.

(https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250418112632.htm) Soft brainstem implant delivers high-resolution hearing
Apr 18th 2025, 11:26

A team has developed a soft, thin-film ABI. The device uses micrometer-scale platinum electrodes embedded in silicone, forming a pliable array just a fraction of a millimeter thick. This novel approach enables better tissue contact, potentially preventing off-target nerve activation and reducing side effects.

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Michael Reeder LCPC
Baltimore, MD

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