The Neuroscience Review Real brain research, made readable. https://theneuroreview.com/ 2026-09-02T13:13:00Z Cameron Hunterton Your brain is guessing https://theneuroreview.com/posts/your-brain-is-guessing.html 2026-09-02T13:13:00Z You don't see the world. You see your brain's best guess of it, corrected by the senses. Three illusions you can run on yourself, and the science of why perception works this way. Where you go under anesthesia https://theneuroreview.com/posts/where-you-go-under-anesthesia.html 2026-08-26T13:13:00Z General anesthesia does not switch your brain off. It dissolves the conversation between its parts, and you can watch consciousness leave on a monitor. What actually happens when you go under. What your midlife numbers say about dementia https://theneuroreview.com/posts/midlife-risk-factors-dementia.html 2026-08-19T13:13:00Z A 26-year study found that reaching midlife without high blood pressure, diabetes, or smoking was linked to 12.6 more dementia-free years. The biology of why, and what actually helps. What to know before you try peptides https://theneuroreview.com/posts/what-to-know-before-peptides.html 2026-08-12T00:00:00Z They’re sold as shortcuts to muscle, healing, weight loss, even a sharper brain. Here’s the honest map of what works, what doesn’t, and where the real risks are. Can a brain implant read the voice in your head? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/brain-implant-inner-voice.html 2026-08-05T00:00:00Z A brain implant caught sentences a person only imagined. The same study shows how limited, and how careful, that reading has to be. How can one drug treat both depression and anxiety? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/how-one-drug-treats-depression-and-anxiety.html 2026-07-29T00:00:00Z The same pill is a first choice for depression and for panic, social anxiety, and OCD. That one fact strains the chemical imbalance story and points at how antidepressants really work. What happens when you put prism glasses on a barn owl? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/barn-owl-prism-experiment.html 2026-07-22T00:00:00Z A young owl in goggles that shift its whole world sideways, and the map of sound in its brain sliding over to match. One of the clearest demonstrations that experience wires the brain. You use all of your brain. https://theneuroreview.com/posts/you-use-all-of-your-brain.html 2026-07-15T00:00:00Z One of the most popular myths about the brain. Why it's wrong, where it came from, and the stranger truth it was clumsily pointing at. Do the new Alzheimer's drugs actually work? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/do-the-new-alzheimers-drugs-work.html 2026-07-08T00:00:00Z A 2023 trial cleared amyloid plaque from people's brains with the drug donanemab and modestly slowed their decline. A breakdown of what that really bought, and what it cost. Scientists found an aggression switch in the mouse brain https://theneuroreview.com/posts/aggression-switch-in-the-brain.html 2026-07-01T00:00:00Z A 2011 study switched on a pinhead of neurons in the mouse hypothalamus and a calm male attacked almost anything. Here's how aggression got a physical address in the brain. Why do you need to sleep? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/why-we-sleep.html 2026-06-24T00:00:00Z You spend a third of your life unconscious and you can't skip it. For something that costly, sleep must be doing real work. Here's what the research says it's for. Why can't most drugs reach your brain? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/the-blood-brain-barrier.html 2026-06-17T00:00:00Z You can swallow a pill and it reaches your whole body, but most drugs never reach your brain. The blood-brain barrier is why, and it's the hardest problem in brain medicine. What does an fMRI actually measure? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/what-fmri-measures.html 2026-06-10T00:00:00Z When a headline says a brain region lit up, what was measured? Not thoughts, and not even electricity. Blood, indirectly, and a few seconds late. How does memory actually work? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/how-memory-works.html 2026-06-09T00:00:00Z A memory isn't a recording filed away in a drawer. It's a physical change in your neurons, rebuilt every time you remember. What is a neuron, really? https://theneuroreview.com/posts/what-is-a-neuron.html 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z A neuron isn't just "a brain cell that sends signals." Here's what one actually is, built up from scratch. Dopamine doesn't do what you think it does. https://theneuroreview.com/posts/dopamine-doesnt-do-what-you-think.html 2026-06-01T00:00:00Z Dopamine isn't really the "pleasure chemical." It's something stranger, and the popular misuse of the word has consequences.