This Week in Brain Science

Week of July 13, 2026 — curated from the top neuroscience and productivity sources.

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Farnam Street

The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante

For the next hour, the world’s top mindset coach is your coach too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s leading performance psychologist. We discuss why most people never reach their potential...

Farnam Street

How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders

Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years studying the surprising role the...

Farnam Street

Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want

Morgan Housel breaks down the exact framework he uses to build wealth, minimize financial stress, and buy freedom. Available Now: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Transcript | YouTube | ...

James Clear

The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No

The ultimate productivity hack is saying no. Not doing something will always be faster than doing it. This statement reminds me of the old computer programming saying, “Remember that there is no...

James Clear

When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective

Audrey Hepburn was an icon. Rising to fame in the 1950s, she was one of the greatest actresses of her era. In 1953, Hepburn became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and ...

Neuroscience News

Decreasing Productivity Can Precede a Dementia Diagnosis by Years

A new study demonstrates that early-onset dementia is associated with severe work productivity losses up to 15 years before a formal diagnosis....

Neuroscience News

AI Chip Mimicking Brain’s Reflex Center Developed

A new study details the development of a cerebellum-inspired memtransistor engineered from atomically thin molybdenum disulfide....

Neuroscience News

Study Shatters Assumptions About Brain Connectome Dynamics

A new study utilizes concurrent EEG-fMRI tracking to prove that the human connectome coordinates multiple separate, asynchronous streams of information processing in parallel....

Neuroscience News

Myelin Damage Triggers Abnormal Brain Rhythms During Sleep

Demyelination triggers abnormal, epileptiform electrical spikes coupled with Stage 2 NREM sleep spindles and induces a severe slowing of rhythmic REM sleep oscillations, establishing overnight sleep r...

Neuroscience News

1,000-Subject Trial Maps Brain Aging in the Real World

A technologically ambitious partnership between UCSF Neuroscape and Samsung launches the TAH-DA study, a massive remote longitudinal trial utilizing consumer wearables to predict and track cognitive d...

Science Daily Mind

Scientists discover how the brain rewires itself to truly multitask

Practice may do more than make perfect. Researchers found that extensive training physically reorganizes the brain, allowing learned tasks to bypass the prefrontal cortex and run through specialized c...

Science Daily Mind

Second pregnancy changes the brain in surprising new ways

Researchers found that every pregnancy rewires the brain in its own way, with a second pregnancy bringing a different pattern of changes than the first. The discoveries could lead to better ways to re...