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Using Cannabis During Pregnancy May Give Children Stress

“Hey mom, your pot smoking is LITERALLY stressing me out!”

Christopher Plain·November 16, 2021

According to a new study, moms who use cannabis during pregnancy may inadvertently predispose their unborn children to stress and anxiety later in life. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the research highlights a risk that...

Researchers Merge AI with Brain Stimulation to Dramatically Boost Mental Function

Novel Process May Lead to Treatments for Severe Mental Illness

Christopher Plain·November 11, 2021

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School working with specialists from Massachusetts General Hospital have demonstrated that a combination of artificial intelligence and brain stimulation can dramatically improve a number of mental functions. This novel approach may result in...

Psychedelic Drug Psilocybin Sparks Immediate and Lasting Growth To Neural Connections

Tim McMillan·July 5, 2021

Just published research shows a single dose of the psychedelic drug psilocybin has immediate and long-lasting increases in neural connections.

Making America Great Again? National Nostalgia Influences Political and Racial Perceptions

Tim McMillan·April 23, 2021

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Virginia Commonwealth University say they found that having a high level of national nostalgia predicted both positive attitudes toward former President Donald Trump and racial prejudice. In previous studies, nostalgia, or feeling a...

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Using Cannabis During Pregnancy May Give Children Stress

“Hey mom, your pot smoking is LITERALLY stressing me out!”

“Hey mom, your pot smoking is LITERALLY stressing me out!”

Researchers Merge AI with Brain Stimulation to Dramatically Boost Mental Function

Novel Process May Lead to Treatments for Severe Mental Illness

Novel Process May Lead to Treatments for Severe Mental Illness

Psychedelic Drug Psilocybin Sparks Immediate and Lasting Growth To Neural Connections

SpaceX Just Launched a Mysterious Classified Mission for the U.S. Space Force—Here’s What We Know

Scientists Say the “Lizard Brain” Is a Myth, But the Truth About How Our Brains Evolved May Be Even Stranger

Scientists Discover Bacteria Growing Microscopic “Electrical Wires” With Extraordinary Conductivity

LSD, Psilocybin, and 2C-B Each Leave a Distinct Fingerprint on the Brain, New Study Finds

Mysterious Origins of Britain’s 4,000-Year-Old ‘Devils’ Arrows’ Stone Monument Have Finally Been Solved

4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Discovery Reveals Something Archaeologists Say They Have Never Seen

4,000-Year-Old Tomb of Ancient Egyptian ‘Keeper of the Secrets’ Discovered at Saqqara

Astronomers Detected Three Mysterious “Glitches” in a Pulsar That Had Gone Silent for Years

Physicists Report Levitation Experiment That May Signal a Breakthrough in the Search for Mysterious Dark Matter

First-of-a-Kind Experiments Demonstrate Effects of Einstein’s Gravity in the Quantum World