Ultrasound opens the brain’s barrier to Alzheimer’s drugs in tiny trials
About 260 people with Alzheimer’s have had the procedure across 27 studies, none of them randomized, and the most striking result so far comes…
FNIH launches a Music as Medicine neuroscience initiative with Renée Fleming
The Foundation for the NIH announced the program on July 2 with soprano Renée Fleming, drummer Mickey Hart and Jim Weiss; the stated aim…
How to try a sound bath without buying the hype
Singing bowls and gongs have moved into offices and cathedrals; the studies behind them are small and single-session, and worth knowing before you lie…
Brain recordings decode imagined melodies, roughly one note in four
In 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the cortex, a Seoul National University team predicted the contour of silently imagined children’s songs at 26%…
Binaural beats, the evidence on one page
A February 2026 review found 10 small trials in people aged 19 to 24, and a 308-person company RCT found the beats worked only…
All stories
Everything we have published, newest first.