The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

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What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

One of the more alarming observations was the sixfold higher concentration of microplastics in brain samples from individuals ...

Although the human brain is capable of sifting through a billion bits of information per second, scientists recently found ...

A paper published Monday in Nature Medicine found that the tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and into human brains, and the amount of microplastics in the brain appears ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

scan of the brain revealing blood vessels in the brain. A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles ...

They point out that few areas in the world still do this. Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected ...