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Cannabis Use Linked to Better Decision Making in Bipolar Disorder Study Finds

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  Cannabis and Bipolar Disorder A Complicated Relationship Worth Looking At Cannabis Use Linked to Better Decision Making in Bipolar Disorder Study Finds For years, cannabis has carried a reputation that swings between miracle remedy and cognitive wrecking ball. If you talk to psychiatrists, many will warn you that regular use can cloud judgment, dull memory, and make decision making worse. If you talk to patients, especially those living with bipolar disorder, the story often sounds different. Some say it slows their racing thoughts. Others claim it helps them feel more grounded when their mood begins to spiral upward. A new study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry adds an unexpected twist to this conversation. It suggests that chronic cannabis use might not impair decision making in people with bipolar disorder the way it tends to in healthy individuals. In fact, moderate use was linked to better decision making compared to bipolar patients who did not use cannabis...
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Dream Engineering Moves From Science Fiction to the Bedroom

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  Dream Engineering Moves From Science Fiction to the Bedroom Dream Engineering Can Improve Problem Solving During Sleep If you have ever watched Inception and thought the whole idea of shaping dreams belonged safely in Hollywood, you might want to pause for a second. The concept of guiding what someone dreams about is no longer just cinematic spectacle. A recent experiment suggests that, in a modest but intriguing way, we can nudge the sleeping mind toward specific problems and perhaps even help it work through them. The idea sounds bold at first. Researchers asked a group of volunteers to think about difficult puzzles before going to sleep. Later, while those volunteers were asleep, the researchers played carefully chosen sounds linked to particular unsolved puzzles. The goal was simple, though slightly surreal: see whether those sounds could steer the dream toward the puzzle and, if so, whether that dream would make the person better at solving it the next day. It sounds almost ...
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A Twilight Between Life and Death

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  A Twilight Between Life and Death The Story That Should Not Have Happened On October 26, 2021, at Baptist Health Richmond in Kentucky, something unfolded that still feels difficult to categorize. Anthony TJ Hoover II, 36 years old, had overdosed. Doctors examined him carefully. No reflexes. No detectable brain activity. He was declared brain dead. His family, processing shock in that flat, stunned way grief often arrives, agreed to organ donation because that is what he had wanted. About an hour into the surgical preparation, everything changed. According to a later whistleblower account sent to Congress, Hoover began thrashing on the operating table. Not a twitch. Not a reflexive jerk. Movement. Intentional enough that surgeons stopped immediately. Somehow, against medical expectation, he had regained consciousness. He survived. Not unscathed. The overdose left lasting impairments in speech, memory, and mobility. But he survived. Eventually, he was discharged into the care of h...
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The Hidden Risk of Advanced AI

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  The Hidden Risk of Advanced AI: Why Anthropic Warns About Rogue Systems The Quiet Shift in How We Think About AI Risk A few years ago, most conversations about artificial intelligence revolved around chatbots giving awkward answers or inventing fake citations. The worst-case scenario, at least in the public imagination, was getting bad homework help or questionable medical advice. That phase is fading. Recently, Anthropic released a 53 page internal Sabotage Risk Report evaluating its latest model, Claude Opus 4.6. Buried in careful language was a phrase that sticks with you. The risk of catastrophic outcomes enabled by the model’s misaligned behavior is described as very low but not negligible. That wording matters. It is not alarmist. It is not dramatic. It is clinical, almost restrained. And yet, when a company building some of the most powerful AI systems in the world says the chance of severe misuse is not negligible, that is not something to wave away. We are not talking ab...
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