Deep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area does more than signal when we re rewarded it forecasts exactly when we ll be rewarded. This discovery came from an elegant collaboration between ...

That’s the real brain drain: it’s draining the world’s intellectual capital to make up for self-imposed habits of failure in America. The talented foreign student turns into an excuse for having ...

Doomscrolling. Instagram obsessions. Mindless YouTube video viewing. Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" as its word of the year, defining it as the "supposed deterioration ...

Doomscrolling. Instagram obsessions. Mindless YouTube video viewing. Last year, Oxford University Press designated "brain rot" as its word of the year, defining it as the "supposed deterioration of a ...

Mindless YouTube video viewing. Distracting behaviors, yes. But can they actually rot a person's brain? Advertisement Article continues below this ad Last year, Oxford University Press designated ...

Blame cell death and fungi for brain decay, not TikTok. TikTok won't really make your brain rot. That doesn't happen until after death. While most brains rot quickly, researchers have found a ...