A new study of about 80 individuals finds that metabolic disorder, as indicated by insulin and leptin resistance, are linked to decreases in memory, attention, and executive function in those with bipolar disorder.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-metabolic-health-emerges-key-brain.html

Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451902226000479

#Science #MentalHealth #MetabolicDisorder #Bipolar #Insulin #Leptin #Cognition

The article examines how individuals with higher subclinical psychopathic traits engage differently in trust-based social decisions, using brain wave measurements to reveal cognitive conflict during cooperative choices and heightened responses to payout outcomes. It highlights behavioral and neural differences in trust, risk, and reward processing.

Trust and social decision-making interest readers of psychology because the work links personality traits to real-time brain activity during everyday interactions, illustrating how individual differences shape cooperation and perceived rewards.

Article Title: Brain wave monitoring reveals how psychopathic traits disrupt trust and reward in social scenarios

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/brain-wave-monitoring-reveals-how-psychopathic-traits-disrupt-trust-and-reward-i/

#psychology #trust #trustgame #psychopathictraits #neuroscience #erp #brainwaves #cognition #rewardprocessing #socialbehavior

The brief highlights a foundational link between human evolution and lateralized behavior, illustrating how shifts in locomotion and brain development may shape handedness. For clinicians and allied mental health professionals, this connection underscores the potential roots of motor-cognitive asymmetries and their relevance to habit formation, learning, and early development.

Article Title: Scientists think they’ve cracked the mystery of human right-handedness

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260517211429.htm

#handedness #neuroscience #evolution #lateralization #cognition #developmentalpsychology #mentalhealth #neurodevelopment #braingrowth #occupationaltherapy

The "Navigational Mind": A Framework for Cognition, Untangling Space, Time, and Lived Experience

The Navigational Mind theory suggests egocentric processing relates to time and allocentric processing relates to space. Learn how this impacts understanding cognition.

#NavigationalMind, #Cognition, #Neuroscience, #Philosophy, #AndreaHiott

https://newsletter.tf/navigational-mind-theory-time-space-processing/

A new theory called 'Navigational Mind' proposes that how we think about time is linked to our 'self-view' (egocentric) and how we think about places is linked to our 'world-view' (allocentric). This is different from previous ideas.

#NavigationalMind, #Cognition, #Neuroscience, #Philosophy, #AndreaHiott
https://newsletter.tf/navigational-mind-theory-time-space-processing/

I've been test-driving Claude Code. Bottom line: failure. It has not yet succeeded at getting to production code any faster; it tends to slow things down.

Even though I'm checking over the code it writes, and re-doing the many things it gets wrong, the process is not honing my coding skills. Normally, when coding on my own, I can feel it reinforcing and strengthening my skills. This article from 404 Media reports similar experiences.

Every time I've tried using "AI" coding assistants, it's added stress trying to corral them into doing something reasonable, clear, and maintainable. Like the 404 article said: "The cognitive overhead of switching between prompting, coding, checking the LLM's output is a massive energy drain." And there's also the stress of debugging code you didn't write, that simultaneously looks totally plausible and doesn't quite make sense.

#ai #coding #cognition #stress

https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

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A sentence is worth a thousand pictures: can large language models understand hum4n L4ngu4ge and the W0rld behind W0rds?

" To assess this, we ran a novel leet task (l33t t4sk), which requires decoding sentences in which letters are systematically replaced by numbers. In line with our hypothesis, the results suggest that humans excel in this task, whereas models struggle."

Evelina Leivada, Gary Marcus, Fritz Günther, Elliot Murphy; A sentence is worth a thousand pictures: can large language models understand hum4n L4ngu4ge and the W0rld behind W0rds?. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 14 May 2026; 384 (2320): 20250008. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2025.0008

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #Cognition #Language #Academia

This brief highlights a novel mechanism linking cellular energy production to cognitive function, a topic with meaningful implications for clinicians observing memory changes in neurodegenerative conditions. The finding that temporarily boosting mitochondrial activity can restore memory performance in animal models underscores the importance of neuronal energy dynamics as a potential domain for assessment and intervention awareness among mental health practitioners, social workers, and therapists working with patients at risk for cognitive decline.

Article Title: Scientists reversed memory loss by recharging the brain’s tiny engines

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260515234803.htm

#memory #neurodegeneration #mitochondria #cognition #Alzheimers #neuroscience #brainhealth #therapeutics #neuroplasticity #mentalhealth