R. Douglas Fields
@rdouglasfields1
Neuroscientist & science writer. Author of Why We Snap & The Other Brain. My scientific research is on cellular mechanisms of brain development & memory.
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Some people never have sex--here's why. rdouglasfields.com/2025/10/28/som…
New study shows that a leaky blood-brain barrier causes autism-like symptoms. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ne…
Neuroscience technology can predict your baby's future, and reveal how stress during pregnancy affects a child's brain development. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ne…
There is something fundamentally wrong with our concept of how neurons communicate in the human cerebral cortex, Lichtman's lab's beautiful work reveals. I believe this offers new insights for the tremendous increase in cognitive power of vertebrates. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/AHJUTJ7…
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Connectivity in the Human Cerebral Cortex: A Fundamental Problem and a Possible Explanation for the...
Recent electron microscopy reveals that weak synaptic connectivity predominates in the human cerebral cortex, raising the question of how information is transmi...
To my myelin biologist friends--Why you've been doing g-ratios wrong. My commentary on Alexander Gow's new paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Tweaking LSD to treat schizophrenia without causing hallucinations. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ne…
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A New Form of LSD to Treat Schizophrenia
Researchers have modified LSD to treat schizophrenia without hallucinogenic effects.
Sugar craving and diabetes linked to gut bacteria. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ne…
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Craving Sugar Linked to Gut Bacteria
A new study finds that craving sugar is driven by a deficiency in a gut microbe that releases a substance that acts much like the drug Ozempic to lower blood sugar and appetite.
Who discovered brainwaves? What did he think he had found? The centennial of the discovery of brainwaves in humans exposes a chilling tale involving #Nazis, war between Russia and #UkraineWar , suicide and the vicissitudes of history. #sciam rdouglasfields.com/2024/12/24/the…
The centennial of the discovery of brain waves in humans exposes a chilling tale involving Nazis, war between Russia and Ukraine, suicide and the vicissitudes of history scientificamerican.com/article/the-hu…
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The Human Brainwaves Centennial Exposes a Darker Science History
The centennial of the discovery of brain waves in humans exposes a chilling tale involving Nazis, war between Russia and Ukraine, suicide and the vicissitudes of history
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Longest Nerve in the Body - smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… @smithsonianmag
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Longest Nerve in the Body
Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of the mind such as mood, pleasure and fear
rdouglasfields.com/2024/08/27/how… How could stimulating one nerve, the vagus, relieve depression, migraine, enhance cognition, and more?
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How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection - Douglas Fields
Vagal nerve stimulation relieves migraine, tinnitus, obesity, pain, drug addiction and more. But how could stimulating a single nerve do that?
Every measure is taken to protect athletes from physical injury in competitive sports, but as the recent Olympics shows, protection from mental injury is neglected. rdouglasfields.com/2024/08/17/psy… #Olympics2024Paris #simonebiles #ImaneKhelif
How prehistoric viral infection promotes inherited mental illnesses by altering DNA @PsychToday psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ne…
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Viral Infections May Change DNA and Promote Inherited Mental Illness
New research is revealing that inherited mental illnesses are promoted by alterations in DNA that were caused by viral infection of our ancestors over a million years ago.
Insertion of genetic material from a virus into the genome of a vertebrate ancestor enabled the lightning-quick electrical impulses that give animals with backbones their smarts trib.al/29SDpFL
How did myelin suddenly appear in evolution and boost brain power in vertebrates beyond all other animals? Learn the new answer @sciam : scientificamerican.com/article/a-rand…
A Link Between War, Altruism, and Sex | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-ne…
Big Mystery about the Little Brain (Cerebellum) quantamagazine.org/the-part-of-th…
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The Part of the Brain That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings | Quanta Magazine
The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain.
New study shows that early life trauma can be encoded in the genome and passed on to subsequent generations. A common drug can erase the "biological memory." psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-…
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How Early Trauma Can Pass Through the Generations
New experimental research on mice finds that mental health problems can be a legacy of a past generation’s early life trauma, inherited by future generations.
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