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Ukrainian fintech meets the AI data economy 🤝
W Group, the ecosystem founded by Volodymyr Nosov, has invested $400 million in US startup SignSplit. After the seed round, the company is valued at $1 billion. W Group was the only investor, and the deal also includes a multi-year strategic partnership to help SignSplit expand internationally.
SignSplit is building infrastructure for what it calls the signed data economy: verifying where data comes from, recording consent for its use and setting access terms. It targets companies in AI, robotics, research and media.
The aim is to make it easier to protect and license user data, creative work and digital likenesses, with transparent terms and compensation for the people who contribute value.
SignSplit was founded in 2024 in Delaware as a Public Benefit Corporation and is led by co-founder and CEO Alessandro Monterosso. W Group, founded in 2018, says it unites 11 companies, 1,500+ employees in 15 offices and 40 million customers in 150 countries, including the WhiteBIT exchange.
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TECH FOR THE TRAVEL & INSURANCE SECTORS: TTS builds user & business tech that creates opportunities & benefits. AI powered travel training, data driven climate analytics & mobile apps for travelers & businesses. Platform evals:
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The deck has been shuffled again. The Digital Benefits and Disbenefits Cornucopia croupier has dealt the Five of Agency (AG-5). The card's focus is precision of claimant-submitted data. Full details at https://www.digitalbenefits.uk/deck/agency/5
DBD Cornucopia is a practical tool for teams implementing welfare benefit e-government services. It assists system review to identify how digitisation choices affect claimants adversely.
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https://www.europesays.com/3299360/ Why have SLBCs/UTLBCs been asked to report SC beneficiary data for key government schemes for jobs and entrepreneurship? | Explained #business #Entrepreneurship #FinancialInclusionAndPolicyImpact #GovernmentPanelMustReportSCBeneficiaryDataForKeySchemes #MSME #MudraYojana #PrimeMinister’sEmploymentGenerationProgramme #SCBeneficiaryDataForKeySchemes #StandUpIndia
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1244149/ Why have SLBCs/UTLBCs been asked to report SC beneficiary data for key government schemes for jobs and entrepreneurship? | Explained #Business #Entrepreneurship #FinancialInclusionAndPolicyImpact #GovernmentPanelMustReportSCBeneficiaryDataForKeySchemes #MSME #MudraYojana #PrimeMinister’sEmploymentGenerationProgramme #SCBeneficiaryDataForKeySchemes #StandUpIndia #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Amazon Storage Gantry is a fully managed overhead lifting framework that suspends your data assets at a fixed elevation above your application tier, allowing workloads to pass beneath them at high throughput while the Gantry handles all vertical load distribution, cross-beam replication, and the overhead clearance calculations you definitely would have gotten wrong yourself. Storage Gantry supports up to 47— objects per namespace across 14 storage classes, integrates natively with IAM through a separate 340-page policy grammar specific to gantry operations, and is available today in us-east-1 with additional regions coming at re:Invent every year until one of them is yours. The Free Tier includes 5 GB of suspended storage and one lift cycle per month, after which you are billed per kilogram-meter of elevation per millisecond, a unit that will make complete sense once you receive your first invoice.
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A US Senate investigation led by Senators Warren, Van Hollen, and Blumenthal says some hyperscalers misled the public about AI data centers' costs and benefits (Nik Popli/Time)
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Resisting the Menace of Federal #DataConsolidation
In the past two years, the federal government has unlawfully consolidated data exposing our private information.
This consolidation has been chaotic but generally came in three rolling waves: It started with #DOGE , moved to agency-to-agency data sharing with #ICE , and then attempted data-driven purges of state #voter rolls.
We all deserve to live in a world where the data we use to pay our taxes, receive benefits, and #vote is not combined and #weaponized against us. The amalgamation of data leads to mistakes, abuses, and a lack of trust in institutions meant to protect us. Overall, it can chill our participation in society. This is particularly true for groups disfavored by this administration—especially #immigrants and #protesters.
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DATE: October 8, 2026 at 07:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Medication helps adults with ADHD weigh the negative consequences of their decisions
Adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder often struggle with choices that require weighing potential rewards against negative consequences. A new experiment reveals that a common stimulant medication improves these choices specifically by helping individuals pay more attention to the potential costs of their actions. The research was published in Psychological Medicine.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsive behavior. People with this diagnosis frequently experience difficulties with real-life decisions, which can manifest as reckless driving, substance abuse, and risky sexual behavior. Every day, humans navigate choices that require balancing the positive aspects of an action against its negative aspects. Buying a new phone brings the benefit of better technology but carries the cost of having less money for groceries.
Neurobiological theories suggest that the disorder involves atypical functioning of dopamine and norepinephrine, which are chemical messengers in the brain that help regulate attention, reward processing, and cognitive effort. Stimulant medications like methylphenidate, often sold under the brand name Ritalin, increase the availability of these chemicals in the brain. While researchers know that stimulants generally improve decision-making, the exact psychological mechanisms driving this improvement have remained elusive.
Mads Lund Pedersen, a psychologist at the University of Oslo, and a team of colleagues conducted a study to break down the specific components of decision-making. They wanted to know if medication helps people by increasing their sensitivity to rewards, heightening their awareness of costs, or simply altering the amount of time they spend thinking before they act.
To answer these questions, the research team recruited 61 adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and 63 healthy control participants. The study utilized a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover design. The participants with the diagnosis completed the testing twice, once after taking their standard dose of methylphenidate and once after taking an inactive placebo pill. Neither the participants nor the researchers knew which pill was administered on which day. The healthy control participants also completed the testing twice but did not receive any medication.
During the experiment, participants engaged in a computer-based task designed to test how they integrate costs and benefits. First, they completed a training phase where they learned to associate six different shapes with specific numerical rewards and six different colors with specific numerical costs. After learning these associations, they moved on to the main testing phase.
In the testing phase, the computer presented participants with a colored shape for a few seconds. The participants had to mentally combine the benefit value of the shape and the cost value of the color to determine the net value. If the net value was positive, the correct choice was to accept the offer. If the net value was negative, the correct choice was to reject it.
The researchers analyzed the behavioral data using a mathematical framework called the drift diffusion model. This model separates the fast, split-second process of making a choice into distinct cognitive components. One component is the drift rate, which measures how quickly and efficiently the brain accumulates evidence about the choice. Another component is the decision threshold, which represents the amount of information a person requires before they commit to an action, often referred to as the speed-accuracy tradeoff. A third component is non-decision time, which accounts for the physical time it takes to see the image on the screen and press the button.
The results showed that when participants with the diagnosis were given the placebo, they were less accurate than the healthy control group. The mathematical model revealed that the unmedicated participants had a lower drift rate, meaning they processed information about both the costs and the benefits less efficiently. They also exhibited a narrower decision threshold, meaning they acted on less information and responded prematurely.
The researchers also compared how the different groups weighed the positive and negative information. The healthy control participants naturally allowed the cost of the stimuli to influence their decisions more heavily than the benefits. The unmedicated participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder showed the reverse pattern, demonstrating a stronger sensitivity to the benefits than to the costs.
Administration of methylphenidate changed how the participants processed the information. The medication caused an increase in the drift rate, but this improvement was highly selective. The drug improved how efficiently the participants accumulated evidence about the costs, while leaving their sensitivity to the benefits entirely unchanged. By boosting cost sensitivity, the medication shifted the overall balance of their decision-making closer to the pattern seen in the healthy control group.
The medication also produced some unexpected effects. Instead of increasing the decision threshold to make participants wait for more information, the drug narrowed the threshold slightly further. However, the medication also increased the participants’ non-decision time. The researchers suggest that the participants might have spent this extra fraction of a second visually encoding the images, which could have improved the accuracy of their stimulus representations and contributed to the higher drift rate observed under medication.
The researchers analyzed individual differences among the participants who had the diagnosis. They found that individuals who reported more severe symptoms in their daily lives had the lowest sensitivity to costs when they were unmedicated. Among those taking medication, higher prescribed doses of methylphenidate were associated with both a stronger sensitivity to costs and a wider decision threshold.
The study includes several limitations regarding how the medication might be acting on the brain. The drug could be improving basic learning and memory rather than the actual moment of decision-making. Because participants had to memorize the values of the shapes and colors during the training phase, the stimulant might simply help them remember those specific values more reliably during the test.
Alternatively, participants might have used simple mental arithmetic to subtract the cost from the benefit. Stimulant medication could enhance this working memory skill independently of how the brain naturally weighs risks and rewards. The study also excluded individuals with severe comorbid psychiatric conditions, meaning the results might not apply to people who have additional severe mental health disorders. Finally, because the medication can cause noticeable physical sensations, some participants might have guessed when they received the active drug, which can influence behavioral performance through expectations.
Future research could separate these potential mechanisms by providing the values directly on the screen, removing the need for participants to memorize the shapes and colors beforehand.
The study, “Selective enhancement of cost sensitivity by methylphenidate in adult ADHD: a randomized placebo-controlled trial,” was authored by Mads Lund Pedersen, Athanasia M. Mowinckel, Sigurd Ziegler, Mats Fredriksen, Atle Bjørnerud, Tor Endestad, and Guido Biele.
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DATE: October 9, 2026 at 10:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: The invisible chore that may matter more for women’s relationship happiness than housework
A new two-part study suggests that women in heterosexual relationships tend to report greater relationship and sexual satisfaction when their male partners share more of the mental and emotional effort required to run a household and relationship. The research, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, also indicates that this behind-the-scenes burden predicts women’s contentment more strongly than the division of physical chores like cleaning or cooking. Men, however, tended to report greater relationship satisfaction when their female partners carried more of this unseen labor.
Research on the division of domestic labor often focuses on routine physical tasks like washing dishes and taking out the trash. Running a home, however, also involves what researchers call the mental load. This concept refers to the nonphysical management of family life, combining cognitive labor, such as anticipating household needs, scheduling appointments, and organizing routines, with emotional labor, such as offering reassurance, calming family tensions, and monitoring a partner’s feelings.
As a 2021 theoretical paper argued, the mental load is often invisible, has no clear boundaries, and is never truly finished. Physical chores have an obvious end point, but remembering to restock groceries, managing a child’s school calendar, or sensing that a partner is distressed can happen at any hour of the day or night.
In a 2019 qualitative study, researchers observed that women disproportionately handle the planning and monitoring tasks in family life, which frequently creates unacknowledged relationship tension. This dynamic fits into broader patterns of relationship balance, such as a study of young adults covered by PsyPost in 2017, which showed that having less power in a romantic partnership tends to harm women far more than men.
The research team, led by Verena Klein of the University of Southampton, wanted to test whether the mental load predicts romantic and sexual satisfaction separately from physical housework. The authors noted that prior work often treated domestic work only as physical actions, leaving out the constant mental organizing that many women carry. They designed two studies to explore how this cognitive and emotional division relates to both partners’ everyday well-being, preregistering the first study’s design and planned analyses.
In the first study, the researchers recruited 452 heterosexual women from the United Kingdom who lived with a male partner. The participants had an average age of about 42 years, their relationship durations ranged from 1 to 44 years, and roughly 55% had at least one child. The participants completed questionnaires assessing how they and their partners divided mental load, who completed routine physical chores, and how strongly they endorsed traditional gender roles. Relationship and sexual satisfaction were each measured using single questions rated on numerical scales.
To capture the mental load, the researchers created a 17-item scale covering five distinct areas: family management, household management, emotional labor related to children, emotional labor focused on the partner, and relationship nurturing. Because no validated measure of mental load existed when the data were collected, the scale was developed for this study. These areas were grouped into two broad measures: relationship mental load, which covers household organization and couple-focused emotional care, and parental mental load, which covers child-focused organizing and reassurance. Participants rated who completed each task on a 5-point scale ranging from “more me” to “more my partner.”
The results of Study 1 indicated that women reported greater relationship and sexual satisfaction when their male partners were more involved in the mental load of the relationship. These associations were modest in size: correlations of 0.24 for relationship satisfaction and 0.15 for sexual satisfaction, on a scale where 0 means no association and 1 means a perfect one.
When looking at specific facets, emotional labor, such as sensing when a partner is upset and planning romantic events, was linked to higher sexual satisfaction, whereas purely administrative cognitive tasks were not. Parental mental load was tied to higher relationship satisfaction for mothers, but its direct association with sexual satisfaction was not statistically significant.
In regression analyses that included physical housework, gender ideology, and relationship mental load at the same time, mental load was the only factor that predicted women’s relationship and sexual satisfaction. However, its link with sexual satisfaction disappeared once the researchers accounted for women’s overall relationship satisfaction, and parental mental load did not predict sexual satisfaction. Physical housework distribution and traditional gender attitudes did not predict satisfaction once mental load was considered.
Women’s mental load was also largely independent of whether they held traditional or egalitarian views on gender roles. This suggested that even women who actively reject conventional domestic roles can still end up carrying this invisible management burden.
“What surprised me most was the role, or rather, the lack of a role, of women’s gender-role attitudes,” Klein told PsyPost. “We expected traditional attitudes to be associated with a more unequal division of housework, and they were. But mental load was different: gender ideology basically didn’t explain who carried it. Even women who explicitly held egalitarian views could still be carrying a disproportionate share.”
“That’s what made this result stick with me: this isn’t simply a belief problem,” she added. “You don’t have to believe that you should be responsible for these things to end up being responsible for them. That doesn’t mean egalitarian attitudes don’t matter. But our findings suggest that they don’t automatically translate into equality in everyday practice.”
While the first study provided important insights from women, it could not capture how both partners within the same couple perceive their division of labor. To address this, the researchers conducted a second study, which was not preregistered, using a dyadic design that surveys both partners together so scientists can examine how each person’s experiences relate to the other. They recruited 156 heterosexual, cohabiting couples from the United Kingdom and the United States through an online platform, with an average age of about 38 years and an average relationship duration of 13 years.
Both partners completed the same questionnaires used in the first study, evaluating their own division of labor alongside single-item satisfaction measures. The researchers used the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, a statistical technique designed for couples that tests how a person’s own reports and their partner’s reports predict satisfaction outcomes at the same time.
Both men and women agreed that women performed a greater share of household chores and handled substantially more of the mental load. On the scale, a score of 3 meant an equal split, lower scores meant the respondent did more, and higher scores meant their partner did more. Women’s average relationship mental load score was 2.31, indicating that they saw themselves doing more, while men’s was 3.36, indicating that they saw their partners doing more. The gap was even wider for parental mental load (1.71 for women versus 3.53 for men) and smaller for physical chores (2.57 versus 3.18).
“What’s striking is how clear this inequality was,” Klein noted. “In our couples data, both women and men reported that women were carrying more of it, this wasn’t just women perceiving an inequality that men didn’t see. Both partners’ reports pointed the same direction.”
When examining how this division related to satisfaction, the authors discovered a gender difference. For women, relationship and sexual satisfaction were highest when relationship mental load was shared equally between partners. In contrast, men reported greater relationship satisfaction when their female partners handled a larger share of the mental load. For sexual satisfaction, men were also most content when their female partners reported that the mental load was divided equally.
“I don’t think that means men are consciously thinking ‘I want my partner to do everything,'” Klein said regarding the differing relationship satisfaction patterns. “I’d be careful about reading it as a conscious preference. But it does show that the same unequal arrangement can have very different consequences for each partner, and it raises the question of whether some traditional arrangements remain comfortable for men even as social norms around equality are shifting.”
For parental mental load, the patterns looked different. Both mothers and fathers reported higher relationship satisfaction when they felt their partner took on more of the child-related mental load, and when their partner perceived them as doing more. However, parental mental load did not show a link to sexual satisfaction for either men or women, echoing the findings from Study 1.
Geoff MacDonald, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto who was not involved in the study, told PsyPost that the most central takeaway is how both partners recognized the domestic gap.
“For me, it’s that both men and women agree that women take on more of the mental load around household tasks, and this can have consequences for women’s well-being in a relationship,” he said. “Our lab thinks a lot about why women are happier being single than men, and why men desire partnership more than women, and we often discuss this division of household labor. These results are very consistent with the idea that women are right to be concerned about what they’re signing up for.”
MacDonald added that while the finding aligns with general expectations in the field, it expands the empirical picture. “It is consistent with thinking in this area, but provides new data on the mental load part that I haven’t seen before,” he noted.
To help partners address these imbalances in daily life, Klein emphasized translating abstract ideas of fairness into practical habits. She pointed out that real progress requires moving beyond simple chore distribution to recognize the ongoing mental effort behind running a home.
“The first step is simply making mental load visible,” Klein said. “It happens in someone’s head, has no clear starting or finishing point, and partners often genuinely don’t realize how much of it one person is carrying.”
“So couples shouldn’t only ask, ‘Who does the laundry?’ but also, ‘Who notices that the laundry needs doing, remembers it, knows which clothes need washing and how they should be washed (which clothes can go together, what temperature to use etc.), and makes sure it happens?'” she suggested. “Asking ‘Who noticed the immunization appointment was due?’ or ‘Who remembered what groceries we needed?’ is much more useful than simply saying, ‘We should share things more equally.’ And I think there’s an important difference between dividing tasks and dividing responsibility. If one partner has to remind the other what needs to be done, they’re still carrying part of the mental load.”
There are a few things to keep in mind when interpreting these results. Because both studies relied on cross-sectional surveys, the data show associations between labor divisions and relationship happiness rather than proving that one directly causes the other. It remains possible that couples who are already happier and feel more connected communicate better, which might naturally lead to a fairer division of daily responsibilities.
The study also had limited variation at the extremes: no woman reported that her partner handled all of the mental load, and no man in the couples study reported handling all of it himself. That restricted range may have made some patterns harder to detect. In addition, the participants were drawn entirely from the United States and the United Kingdom, and the authors did not track weekly hours spent at paid jobs, which could influence how much free time each partner has to manage home affairs.
MacDonald raised additional questions regarding what the mental load measure actually captures. “I think the main concern is the validity of the mental load scale, which the authors flag themselves,” he told PsyPost. “There’s a potential argument, for example, that perceptions of a partner’s household contributions are reflecting a broader variable like perceived partner responsiveness, such that this may be reflecting a larger issue than just household contributions. That is, maybe household mental load is just one of many domains in which it is a problem to have a thoughtless partner.”
“I’d also say that a partner’s contribution to mental load may be a reflection of personality traits like conscientiousness, which also has effects across multiple domains,” MacDonald added. “For example, men’s conscientiousness has been previously shown to contribute to women’s sexual function in heterosexual relationships. So it would be helpful if there was more data on the validity of the measure, particularly discriminant validity that accounts for cross-domain effects.”
Perceived partner responsiveness refers to how much people feel their partner understands and cares for them, while conscientiousness is a personality trait marked by being organized and dependable. Discriminant validity refers to evidence that a scale measures something distinct from closely related qualities.
“The authors make the valid point that the kinds of relationship and family contributions that are more typically ascribed to men, like managing finances or doing household repairs, are things that can typically be put off if need be (e.g., the grass can be cut any time but the diapers need to be changed right away),” MacDonald observed. “But, since this is about mental load, in theory worrying about the financial situation or planning out renovations can also create a constant mental load. So, it would be interesting to factor in other domains outside of household labor to get a fuller picture of mental load and its effects on relationship well-being.”
He also suggested examining how these imbalances influence individuals before they enter relationships. “It would be very interesting to see single people’s assessments of these mental load dynamics, and investigate directly if they relate to people’s desire to be in a partnership,” MacDonald said. “Maybe these dynamics are having effects long before people partner, even leading partnership not happening at all.”
Klein noted that much remains to be understood about how mental load operates across different populations and evolving cultural standards. She added that while public conversations around domestic labor are changing, long-term empirical evidence on cognitive burdens remains scarce.
“What we know robustly, across other studies too, is that women carry the larger share of mental load, especially around childcare and parenting decisions, and that this comes with costs: higher stress, lower life and relationship satisfaction, and potentially negative effects on their careers,” Klein explained.
“I think there are reasons to believe that gender norms are changing, but our study cannot tell us whether mental-load inequality itself is changing over time,” she continued. “We have decades of research, including cohort studies, tracking how heterosexual couples divide physical housework and how that division has shifted across generations. We simply don’t yet have enough longitudinal evidence on mental load to say, ‘This generation is different from the previous generation.’ That evidence is still missing.”
Future studies could track couples over longer periods to see whether changes in how couples divide this work are followed by changes in satisfaction. Exploring how mental load relates to specific sexual experiences, such as personal desire or intimacy, could also help clarify how daily domestic teamwork shapes life behind closed doors.
“We have become much better at asking who cooks, who cleans and who does the childcare. But we also need to ask who remembers, anticipates, plans, organizes and worries about all of those things,” Klein concluded. “That work is much less visible, but our findings suggest that it matters for women’s relationship satisfaction. And the fact that women can carry a disproportionate share of this work even when they hold egalitarian gender-role beliefs speaks to how deeply internalized these gendered expectations can be.”
The study, “Unequal Burdens, Unequal Benefits: Housework, Mental Load, and Gendered Satisfaction in Heterosexual Relationships,” was authored by Verena Klein, Esra Ascigil, Tanja Oschatz, and Rotem Kahalon.
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DATE: October 9, 2026 at 07:00AM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Researchers explore how J-Pop listening habits impact visual memory
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-listening-to-favorite-pop-music-relates-to-visual-memory/
A small pilot study exploring the brain activity of young adults found that listening to preferred Japanese pop music was associated with higher descriptive scores in visual memory and subjective focus compared to unpleasant noise or silence. While the results were not statistically significant, the research provides a framework for testing how everyday listening habits relate to learning and attention. The findings were published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Many students habitually listen to music while they review class materials or prepare for exams. Popular media often highlights a supposed cognitive boost from classical music, an idea frequently branded as the Mozart effect. But very few university students actually select classical instrumental pieces for their daily study routines.
Instead, contemporary students frequently choose popular music with familiar lyrics. This habit presents a puzzle for cognitive researchers. Meaningful speech and background vocals can easily disrupt the human brain as it attempts to process language and memorize verbal facts.
Listening to a favorite pop song with lyrics might logically act as a distraction that pulls attention away from educational materials. Conversely, familiar and enjoyable music can elevate a person’s mood, reduce stress, and increase overall motivation to complete a difficult task.
Different types of learning might also respond differently to musical background noise. While reading comprehension and verbal memorization often suffer when background lyrics are present, recalling visual information might be less susceptible to the exact same interference.
Researchers are working to understand if preferred background music can support efficient memory processing through emotional engagement. They are looking at neural mechanisms that are entirely distinct from those typically emphasized in traditional classical music narratives.
Yoshiko Tojo, a researcher at the Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences in Japan, wanted to understand this dynamic in a realistic context. Tojo aimed to see how self-selected Japanese pop music, commonly known as J-Pop, relates to visual memory retrieval and regional brain activity.
Tojo recruited healthy university students for a small brain imaging pilot study. After exclusions for incomplete data, the final analysis included five participants. The participants completed a visual memory test while lying inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner.
This imaging technology tracks blood flow in the brain to measure neural activity in real time. The visual memory task began with an encoding phase. Participants viewed sets of emotionally neutral photographs, such as everyday animals and food items.
They were asked to memorize both the specific objects and the exact order in which they appeared on the screen. Later, the participants answered true or false statements about the images to test their recall. They performed this retrieval task under three different auditory conditions.
In the first condition, participants listened to a J-Pop song they had personally selected beforehand as pleasant and comfortable. The second condition featured an abrasive composite sound made of ambulance sirens and earthquake early warning alarms. The final condition served as a baseline, featuring no sound other than the continuous rhythmic thumping of the scanner itself.
Following the memory tests, participants rated their subjective ability to focus during each auditory condition on a visual scale. They also rated the pleasantness of each sound environment. Tojo then analyzed both the behavioral performance and the brain activity data to see how the auditory contexts compared.
The behavioral data showed distinct patterns across the three listening environments. Participants achieved the highest average recall accuracy, answering correctly roughly 82 percent of the time, while listening to their preferred J-Pop music. In the baseline condition with no added sound, accuracy averaged about 76 percent.
The abrasive alarm sounds yielded the lowest recall accuracy at just 71 percent. The subjective focus ratings closely mirrored these results, with participants reporting the highest concentration during the J-Pop condition.
Brain scan data revealed shifting activity in specific neural regions depending on the background noise. Tojo focused heavily on the anterior insula, an area of the brain involved in evaluating subjective emotions, sensing internal body states, and managing large-scale attention networks.
During the J-Pop condition, participants showed higher average activity in the anterior insula compared to the other two conditions. This elevated activity suggests the familiar music might have engaged brain areas responsible for processing positive emotions and maintaining sustained task engagement.
Tojo also examined the temporo-occipital visual association cortex, a region at the back of the brain responsible for higher order visual processing and memory. Activity in this visual region was highest during the unpleasant alarm condition and lowest in the silent baseline condition.
This increased visual brain activity during the alarm condition might indicate that participants had to work harder to process the images when exposed to abrasive noise. But because the sample size was restricted to only five people, these behavioral and neural differences were not statistically significant.
The limited number of participants is the primary constraint of this research. The small sample size heavily restricts statistical power, meaning the results cannot be generalized to broader populations without further testing.
The experimental design also utilized different sets of pictures for each sound condition. This approach prevented participants from simply recognizing images they had already seen in previous rounds. But it also introduces the possibility that some image sets were inherently easier to remember than others.
The research focused exclusively on a visual memory task and a single genre of popular music. It is unknown if similar emotional and neural patterns would appear for verbal learning tasks, such as reading a textbook or memorizing vocabulary words.
Future studies with larger and more diverse groups of participants are needed to verify these trends. Expanding the research could reveal exactly when and for whom studying with background music might be beneficial.
These initial observations do not establish that listening to preferred music inherently improves memory performance. They do suggest that listening to emotionally positive background music is not universally detrimental to studying, opening the door for larger investigations into how personal listening habits affect the brain.
The study, “Preferred J-pop music and visual memory retrieval: an exploratory pilot fMRI study,” was authored by Yoshiko Tojo.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/how-listening-to-favorite-pop-music-relates-to-visual-memory/
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TRPV4: scoperto l’«interruttore» neuronale che spegne il prurito cronico
Quando ci grattiamo, a un certo punto ci fermiamo. Non perché la volontà prevalga sull’istinto, ma perché il sistema nervoso genera un segnale di feedback che comunica al cervello che il grattamento ha fatto il suo lavoro. Fino ad oggi, il meccanismo molecolare e neuronale di questo «interruttore» biologico era rimasto largamente sconosciuto. Un nuovo studio presentato al 70° Congresso Annuale della Biophysical Society di San Francisco (febbraio 2026) da Roberta Gualdani, ricercatrice italiana dell’Università Cattolica di Lovanio (KU Leuven, Belgio), ha identificato il canale ionico TRPV4 come attore chiave di questo circuito inibitorio. Una scoperta che ribalta parzialmente la visione tradizionale di TRPV4 come semplice generatore di prurito, e che apre prospettive terapeutiche nuove — e più complesse — per le malattie pruriginose croniche come la dermatite atopica, l’eczema e la psoriasi.
Il prurito cronico: una pandemia silente con grande impatto sulla qualità di vita
Il prurito (pruritus) è definito come una sensazione spiacevole della cute che evoca il desiderio o il riflesso di grattarsi. Nella sua forma acuta è un meccanismo difensivo evolutivamente conservato — un sistema di allerta che segnala la presenza di agenti nocivi sulla superficie cutanea, dalle spine vegetali agli insetti. Nella sua forma cronica, persistendo per più di sei settimane, diventa una condizione debilitante con un impatto sulla qualità di vita paragonabile a quello del dolore cronico.
La prevalenza del prurito cronico nella popolazione generale è stimata tra il 13% e il 17%, con picchi fino al 30% negli anziani. Le patologie associate sono numerose e trasversali alle specialità mediche:
- Dermatologiche: dermatite atopica (prevalenza adulti 5-10%, bambini 15-25%), psoriasi, orticaria cronica spontanea, prurigo nodulare, lichen planus.
- Sistemiche: insufficienza renale cronica con prurito associato a CKD (CKD-aP, presente nel 40-60% dei pazienti in emodialisi), colestasi epatica, prurito paraneoplastico, emopatologie (policitemia vera, linfoma di Hodgkin).
- Neuropatiche: neuropatia delle piccole fibre, herpes zoster post-erpetico, multiple sclerosi, stroke con prurito centrale.
- Psicogene: prurito somatoforme, dermatozoofobia.
Nonostante la prevalenza e l’impatto clinico, il prurito cronico rimane cronicamente sottotrattato. Gli antistaminici anti-H1, utilizzati come prima linea empirica nella maggior parte dei casi, sono efficaci nel prurito istamino-mediato acuto ma di efficacia modesta o nulla nelle forme croniche non allergiche. La comprensione dei circuiti neurali del prurito — e dei meccanismi che li modulano e li inibiscono — è pertanto una priorità di ricerca translazionale con immediata ricaduta clinica.
I canali TRP e il prurito: una famiglia di «sensori molecolari» della cute e del sistema nervoso
I canali TRP (Transient Receptor Potential) sono una superfamiglia di canali cationici non selettivi espressi su cellule sensoriali, epiteliali, immunitarie e neuronali. Rispondono a stimoli chimici, termici e meccanici, fungendo da sensori molecolari multimodali per l’ambiente pericellulare. La loro attivazione provoca l’ingresso di ioni Ca²⁺ e Na⁺ nella cellula, modificando il potenziale di membrana e attivando cascate di segnalazione a valle.
Nel contesto del prurito, i canali TRP più studiati sono:
- TRPV1: il recettore della capsaicina. Attivato da calore, pH acido e lipidi endogeni, è espresso nei neuroni C nocicettivi e pruriricettori. Media sia dolore che prurito e rappresenta un bersaglio farmacologico di lunga data.
- TRPA1: sensore del freddo pungente e di agenti irritanti chimici. Espresso nei neuroni DRG in co-espressione con TRPV1, media il prurito indotto da numerosi pruritogeni non istaminici (clorochina, 4-hydroxynonenal, formaldeide).
- TRPM8: attivato dal freddo e dal mentolo. Paradossalmente, la sua attivazione inibisce il prurito — il meccanismo alla base dell’effetto antipruriginoso del mentolo applicato topicamente.
- TRPV4: il protagonista della nuova scoperta. Canale cationico non selettivo attivato da stimoli osmotici, termici (calore moderato 27-35°C) e meccanici. Espresso nei cheratinociti, nelle cellule endoteliali, nei macrofagi e nei neuroni sensoriali dei gangli della radice dorsale (DRG).
TRPV4 nel prurito: da «promotore» a «regolatore bidirezionale»
Prima della scoperta presentata da Gualdani, TRPV4 era considerato prevalentemente un canale pro-pruriginoso. La revisione di Zhang et al. (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021) aveva sintetizzato le evidenze fino ad allora disponibili, dimostrando che TRPV4 espresso nei cheratinociti è necessario per la risposta a pruritogeni istaminici (istamina, composto 48/80) attraverso il rilascio di TSLP (Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin) e di prostaglandine, che a loro volta attivano i neuroni pruriricettori. Studi con topi knock-out per TRPV4 nei cheratinociti avevano mostrato una riduzione significativa del grattamento in risposta a pruritogeni istaminici.
Il lavoro di Gualdani et al. presentato alla Biophysical Society 2026 capovolge parzialmente questa visione. Utilizzando topi con delezione condizionale di TRPV4 specificamente nei neuroni sensoriali (utilizzando il driver Nav1.8-Cre), i ricercatori hanno ottenuto un risultato apparentemente paradossale: i topi privi di TRPV4 neuronale si grattavano meno frequentemente rispetto ai controlli quando veniva indotta una condizione di prurito cronico simile alla dermatite atopica — ma ogni singolo episodio di grattamento durava molto più a lungo del normale. Questo comportamento dissociativo — frequenza ridotta, durata prolungata — è incompatibile con la semplice riduzione della sensazione pruriginosa, e suggerisce invece la perdita di un meccanismo di terminazione del grattamento.
L’interpretazione proposta dal team è che TRPV4, nei meccanocettori a bassa soglia di tipo Aβ (Aβ low-threshold mechanoreceptors, Aβ-LTMRs) — neuroni classicamente associati al tatto discriminativo — funzioni come sensore del sollievo meccanico indotto dal grattamento. Quando il grattamento ha fornito una stimolazione meccanica sufficiente, TRPV4 nei neuroni Aβ-LTMR si attiva e genera un segnale di feedback negativo verso il corno dorsale del midollo spinale e, da lì, verso le aree cerebrali superiori, comunicando che il «compito» del grattamento è stato completato. In assenza di questo segnale, la sensazione di sollievo è attenuata e il comportamento di grattamento continua oltre la soglia fisiologica.
I circuiti neurali del prurito: dal corno dorsale al cervello
Per comprendere appieno la significatività della scoperta di Gualdani, è necessario inquadrarla nell’architettura dei circuiti neurali del prurito, che negli ultimi dieci anni è stata mappata con crescente precisione.
Il segnale pruriginoso ha origine nei prurirecettori periferici — neuroni C e Aδ dei gangli della radice dorsale (DRG) e del ganglio trigeminale — che esprimono recettori per pruritogeni come istamina (H1R, H4R), IL-31 (IL-31RA), TSLP, interleuchina-4 e -13, nonché i canali TRP sopra descritti. Il segnale viene trasmesso al corno dorsale superficiale del midollo spinale (laminae I e II), dove neuroni interneuronali eccitatori che esprimono GRPR (Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor) svolgono un ruolo centrale nella trasmissione del prurito verso i neuroni di proiezione spinotalamici. Chen e Sun (Nature Communications, 2020) hanno fornito una revisione dettagliata di questi circuiti spinali, evidenziando come il tono inibitorio del corno dorsale — mediato da interneuroni inibitori che esprimono dinorfina (Dyn), neuropeptide Y (NPY) e GABA/glicina — sia essenziale per contenere il segnale pruriginoso entro limiti fisiologici.
Un lavoro fondamentale di Boyle et al. (eLife, 2023) ha dimostrato che gli interneuroni inibitori che esprimono NPY nel corno dorsale agiscono come «cancelli» del segnale doloroso e pruriginoso: la loro ablazione selettiva in topi transgenici produce un comportamento di grattamento eccessivo anche in assenza di stimoli pruriginosi, replicando le caratteristiche del prurito cronico neuropatico. Analogamente, studi precedenti avevano mostrato che il grattamento stesso — attraverso l’attivazione di meccanocettori Aβ — inibisce i neuroni GRPR spinali via rilascio di GABA e glicina, spiegando perché «grattarsi fa bene» almeno transientemente. Il circuito TRPV4-Aβ-LTMR identificato da Gualdani si inserisce in questo schema come il sensore di chiusura del loop: è TRPV4 il sensore molecolare che «decide» quando il grattamento ha prodotto abbastanza stimolazione meccanica per attivare il circuito inibitorio.
La duplicità di TRPV4: pelle vs. neuroni — implicazioni per la terapia
La scoperta più rilevante — e al tempo stesso più complessa — per le prospettive terapeutiche è la natura bifasica del ruolo di TRPV4: pro-pruriginoso nella cute (cheratinociti, macrofagi cutanei), inibitorio nei neuroni sensoriali meccanocettivi. Come ha chiarito Gualdani stessa: «Bloccare in modo generalizzato TRPV4 potrebbe non essere la soluzione. Le terapie future potrebbero dover essere molto più mirate, agendo magari solo sulla pelle, senza interferire con i meccanismi neuronali che ci dicono quando smettere di grattarci.»
Questa bifunzionalità ha implicazioni dirette per i numerosi progetti di sviluppo di antagonisti di TRPV4 attualmente in pipeline farmacologica per il trattamento della dermatite atopica, della psoriasi e del prurito cronico:
- Gli antagonisti sistemici di TRPV4 (come GSK2193874, HC-067047), sviluppati originariamente per edema polmonare e dolore, sopprimerebbero sia la componente cutanea pro-pruriginosa sia quella neuronale inibitoria, con il rischio netto di peggiorare il prurito cronico neutralizzando il feedback «stop-scratching».
- Antagonisti topici cutanei selettivi — in grado di raggiungere i cheratinociti e i macrofagi dermici senza penetrare la barriera ematoencefalica e senza concentrazioni sistemiche sufficienti a inibire i neuroni sensoriali periferici — potrebbero invece rappresentare la strategia ottimale.
- Agonisti selettivi di TRPV4 neuronale potrebbero in teoria potenziare il meccanismo di feedback inibitorio, «amplificando» il segnale di sollievo e accelerando la terminazione del comportamento di grattamento. Un approccio opposto a quello convenzionale, basato sull’inibizione del canale.
Questo paradigma di «farmacologia compartimentale» — in cui lo stesso bersaglio molecolare richiede strategie terapeutiche opposte in tessuti diversi — non è inedito in medicina: ricorda per molti versi la complessità della farmacologia dei recettori oppioidi nel dolore cronico, dove gli effetti centrali e periferici degli oppioidi divergono, o quella dei cannabinoidi nel sistema nervoso centrale vs. periferico.
Il contesto delle terapie correnti per il prurito cronico: dove si inserisce TRPV4
Il panorama terapeutico del prurito cronico ha vissuto una trasformazione negli ultimi anni grazie all’arrivo dei farmaci biologici. Dupilumab (anti-IL-4Rα) ha trasformato il trattamento della dermatite atopica moderata-severa, riducendo significativamente il prurito attraverso il blocco dell’asse IL-4/IL-13; tralokinumab (anti-IL-13) e lebrikizumab completano questa categoria. Gli inibitori JAK (upadacitinib, abrocitinib, baricitinib) hanno dimostrato effetti antipruriginosi rapidi e potenti nella dermatite atopica, superiori in velocità di risposta ai biologici. Per il prurito associato a CKD, difelikefalin (agonista κ-oppioide periferico, approvato FDA 2021) ha aperto una nuova classe terapeutica con un profilo di sicurezza favorevole rispetto agli oppioidi centrali.
Tuttavia, quote significative di pazienti rimangono parzialmente o completamente non rispondenti a queste terapie, in particolare nelle forme di prurito cronico non atopico (prurito neuropatico, prurito sistemico, prurigo nodulare). Per questi pazienti, bersagli molecolari come TRPV4 neuronale — agendo sul circuito di modulazione centrale del grattamento piuttosto che sull’infiammazione cutanea — potrebbero offrire un’efficacia complementare e non sovrapponibile a quella dei biologici.
Commento editoriale
La scoperta di Gualdani et al. è un esempio elegante di come la ricerca di base in biofisica possa ribaltare un paradigma consolidato e generare nuove domande di ricerca translazionale. TRPV4 non è più semplicemente «un canale che causa prurito»: è un sensore bidirezionale la cui funzione dipende radicalmente dal contesto cellulare in cui è espresso. Nei cheratinociti, amplifica il segnale pruriginoso; nei neuroni meccanocettivi Aβ, chiude il loop generando il segnale di soddisfazione del grattamento. Farmacologicamente, questo significa che un antagonista sistemico di TRPV4 potrebbe non solo non ridurre il prurito cronico, ma peggiorarlo eliminando il freno neuronale.
Per il clinico internista, il messaggio pratico è triplice.
Primo: il prurito cronico non è un sintomo «minore» — è un problema di salute con un impatto documentato sulla qualità di vita, sul sonno, sulla salute mentale e sulla morbilità sistemica, e merita un approccio diagnostico e terapeutico strutturato.
Secondo: la neurobiologia del prurito è molto più complessa di quanto suggerisca la semplicistica equazione «istamina → prurito → antistaminico», e la comprensione dei circuiti neurali centrali e periferici è indispensabile per razionalizzare le scelte terapeutiche.
Terzo: nei prossimi anni, è probabile che giungeranno all’attenzione clinica nuovi farmaci diretti verso bersagli neurali (TRP, κOR periferici, circuiti spinali inibitori) per il trattamento del prurito cronico refrattario — e sarà compito del medico internista saperli collocare nel percorso di cura del paziente con malattia pruriginosa cronica.
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: People who favor group-based inequality tend to have less gray matter in an empathy-linked brain region
A person’s preference for group-based inequality and social hierarchies may be linked to both brain structure and a personality trait tied to reward seeking. According to a new study published in Current Psychology, young adults who score higher in social dominance orientation tend to have less gray matter in a brain region involved in empathy and emotional processing. The findings hint that social and political worldviews may be tied partly to basic motivational and emotional differences.
Social dominance orientation is a personality trait that captures how much an individual prefers inequality between social groups over equality. People who score high on this trait view society as naturally divided into superior and inferior groups, often supporting social systems and policies that maintain these hierarchies. In contrast, those with lower scores favor egalitarian relationships between groups and oppose group-based dominance.
To explore how this mindset relates to the physical brain, researchers focused on specific areas, including the anterior insula. The insula is an island of brain tissue tucked deep within the lateral groove on each side of the brain, positioned beneath the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes. Its front portion, the anterior insula, plays a central role in detecting bodily sensations and processing the emotional experiences of others.
The study was led by Jesús Adrián-Ventura, a professor at the University of Zaragoza in Spain and a researcher with the Pseudo-Lab research group.
“Despite Social Dominance Orientation—the ideological belief that some groups should dominate others—being a central construct in social psychology, its neural underpinnings have received very little attention,” Adrián-Ventura told PsyPost. “We aimed to contribute to filling this gap, while also exploring predictors related to personality and motivation. Ultimately, we sought to investigate how stable brain traits (e.g., brain anatomy) and motivational drives jointly predispose individuals to endorse social hierarchies and inequality.”
Earlier psychological work helped establish this line of inquiry. For instance, a 2013 study indicated that people who strongly favor social dominance tend to report lower empathy in general.
Other research suggested that the desire for social hierarchy may be driven less by negative feelings toward other groups than by an appetite for rewards. In particular, a 2013 paper linked social dominance orientation to positive approach motivation, which is the psychological drive to actively pursue rewards. This finding pointed to the possibility that people who endorse hierarchies might find the prospect of higher social rank and power personally rewarding.
Scientists later began asking whether these persistent psychological tendencies correspond to measurable differences in brain anatomy. In a 2023 brain imaging study of adults in Singapore, researchers observed that higher social dominance scores were tied to less gray matter, the brain tissue made up mainly of nerve cell bodies, in the anterior insula and in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area just above the eye sockets involved in weighing values and regulating emotions.
Higher scores were also tied to more gray matter in the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that helps process emotions such as fear. Some of those results did not hold up under stricter analysis methods, so Adrián-Ventura and his colleagues set out to test them again with refined techniques in a Spanish sample.
The researchers recruited 99 healthy young adults between the ages of 18 and 30, including 62 women and 37 men, from a university campus in Spain. All participants completed cognitive screening and filled out psychological surveys before undergoing brain scans. Two participants showed brain volume values that were potential statistical outliers and were excluded from the neuroimaging analyses, leaving a sample of 97 participants. The researchers had calculated in advance that about 84 participants would be needed to reliably detect a moderate correlation.
Participants completed an eight-item survey measuring social dominance orientation, rating statements about group equality and dominance on a scale from 1 to 7. They also completed a 24-item survey assessing sensitivity to reward, which measures how readily someone acts in response to potential incentives in daily life without worrying about negative outcomes. Brain scans were gathered using high-resolution 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging, a technique that produces detailed images of soft tissue without X-rays.
The team analyzed the scans using voxel-based morphometry, a computational approach that measures the volume of gray matter in specific parts of the brain. The authors analyzed predefined regions of interest based on a standardized anatomical brain atlas, adjusting their calculations for participant age and head size. They did not include sex as a separate factor, reasoning that adjusting for head size already captures much of the sex-related variation in brain volume.
The analyses indicated that higher scores on social dominance orientation were linked to less gray matter volume in both the left and right anterior insula. For the left anterior insula, the correlation with social dominance scores was r = -0.30, and for the right anterior insula, it was r = -0.29, representing moderate negative correlations after accounting for age and head size. Because testing several regions raises the odds of a chance finding, the researchers used a stricter threshold for statistical significance, and both insula results passed it.
An exploratory scan of the entire brain found no significant associations with social dominance anywhere, including the insula. The insula link appeared only in the targeted analysis of the three predefined regions.
Unlike the previous study in Singapore, the researchers did not find evidence linking social dominance to the amygdala or the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The associations between dominance scores and gray matter volume in the amygdala were small and were not statistically significant. Similarly, the correlation with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex was not statistically significant.
“We were somewhat surprised by the absence of significant associations in the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which contradicted the only previous neuroanatomical study on this topic,” Adrián-Ventura noted. “Because that prior study involved Singaporean Chinese adults while ours involved a Spanish sample, we suspect this discrepancy might reflect cultural differences. It suggests that while the anterior insula’s involvement might be a universally preserved pathway, other neural mechanisms of social dominance could be highly sensitive to distinct cultural landscapes.”
In their paper, the authors note that methodological differences, such as how the brain regions were outlined, could also explain the discrepancy, and they describe the cultural explanation as speculative.
At the behavioral level, social dominance orientation was positively related to sensitivity to reward, with a moderate correlation of r = 0.33. The researchers then built statistical models that predicted social dominance scores from anterior insula volume, age, and head size before adding reward sensitivity. Among the 95 participants with complete data, the full model accounted for up to 29 percent of the individual differences in social dominance scores, with reward sensitivity adding about 10 to 11 percentage points beyond what the other factors explained.
“The effects we observed are quite substantial,” Adrián-Ventura pointed out. “Importantly, structural brain features and personality traits are highly heritable and exhibit strong stability across the lifespan. This highlights that preferences for social hierarchies are not merely transient attitudes but may be rooted in early developmental and genetic factors.”
“In this sample, people who more strongly endorsed group-based hierarchies tended to have lower gray matter volume in the anterior insula and to report greater sensitivity to rewards,” said David V. Smith, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Temple University, director of the Temple University Brain Research and Imaging Center, and director of the Neuroeconomics Laboratory, who was not involved in the study.
“These findings offer interesting leads for investigating how motivational processes relate to these attitudes.” “The authors’ comparison with earlier work suggests partial support: they found a similar insula association in a different population, but no significant associations in the other two brain regions tested,” he added. “This is a useful follow-up, although I’d want larger studies before treating the pattern as well established.”
The insula findings sit in tension with earlier work by the same team. In a study covered by PsyPost in 2025, Adrián-Ventura and his colleagues reported that, in nearly the same group of Spanish young adults, higher scores on anti-hierarchical aggression, a facet of left-wing authoritarianism that captures hostility toward established authorities, were linked to a thinner cortex in the right anterior insula. That study measured cortical thickness rather than gray matter volume, and its attitude measure targeted hostility toward those in power rather than a general preference for group hierarchy, suggesting that quite different ideological stances may relate to the structure of the same brain region.
The authors suggest that the anterior insula findings might reflect differences in socio-emotional processing. Because the anterior insula helps people tune into the emotional distress and feelings of others, having less gray matter in this region could relate to reduced empathy. If that is the case, reduced sensitivity to others’ feelings, combined with a heightened drive toward incentives, could make individuals more comfortable endorsing social arrangements where some groups dominate others.
“We found that individuals who strongly endorse social hierarchies tend to have less gray matter volume in the anterior insula, a brain region typically involved in empathy and socio-emotional processing,” Adrián-Ventura said. “Furthermore, these individuals showed a heightened sensitivity to reward, suggesting a strong drive to pursue status that may override the negative social consequences of inequality. Together, our results reveal an underlying neurobiological and motivational predisposition associated with a higher social dominance orientation.”
As with all research, there are some caveats to consider. The study was cross-sectional, meaning it captured a snapshot of brain structure and personality traits at a single moment. These observations cannot establish that smaller insula volume causes someone to favor social hierarchies, nor can they determine whether adopting certain social beliefs alters brain tissue over time.
“A crucial caveat is that our study relies strictly on brain and personality measures, meaning we cannot definitively confirm that mechanisms like empathy directly mediate this relationship, although it is highly plausible,” Adrián-Ventura emphasized. “Furthermore, as this is an observational study, we cannot presume a causal direction between brain anatomy and behavioral outcomes. Finally, because our sample consisted of young Spanish adults (mostly university students), further cross-cultural research is needed to determine how well these neurobehavioral correlates generalize to other populations.”
“Lower gray matter volume does not automatically mean less empathy, and greater general reward sensitivity does not demonstrate that someone finds inequality rewarding,” Smith told PsyPost.
Smith also viewed the structural results with caution. “I would treat the anatomical findings as preliminary,” he said. “The targeted analyses and correction for multiple comparisons are strengths, but 97 participants is a relatively small sample for linking individual differences in brain anatomy to psychological traits, where estimated associations can be unstable in smaller samples. I’d also want to see whether the association holds when sex is included in the models, since adjusting for head size is not the same as adjusting for sex.”
The study was also not pre-registered, meaning the researchers did not publicly record their hypotheses and analysis plan in advance, unlike the Singapore study they sought to replicate. Future research will need to examine how sociodemographic variables such as sex and broader age distributions interact with these brain structures over time.
“More broadly, our research group investigates the neurocognitive factors associated with different belief systems—such as authoritarianism, pseudoscientific doctrines, and conspiracy theories—alongside interventions like empathetic refutation,” Adrián-Ventura said. “To advance this mission, our next steps involve examining new functional brain metrics (e.g., resting-state) and the potential mediating roles of behavioral variables such as empathy or perspective-taking. Finally, we aim to conduct longitudinal studies across more generalizable samples from adolescence to early adulthood, allowing us to track the development of these ideologies and establish causal predictors.”
Empathetic refutation is an approach to correcting false beliefs that first acknowledges the concerns behind them, while resting-state measures track brain activity when a person is not performing any task.
Smith also pointed toward experimental steps that could build upon the current findings. “I’d like to see a substantially larger, preregistered replication that directly measures empathy and tests whether people value their group being ahead of another group, even when their own group’s payoff stays the same,” he explained. “That would help distinguish a preference for relative advantage from a more general tendency to pursue rewards.”
The study, “Neuroanatomical correlates of social dominance orientation and the contributing role of reward sensitivity,” was authored by Jesús Adrián-Ventura, Angelo Fasce, Anna Miró-Padilla, Anastasia Cherednichenko, César Ávila, and Diego Avendaño.
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Padres de niñas y niños con cáncer acudieron este miércoles 7 de octubre a la Fiscalía General de la República para presentar una denuncia contra Andrés Manuel López Beltrán y el empresario Jorge Amílcar Olán Aparicio, a quienes señalan por presuntas irregularidades relacionadas con la compra y distribución de medicamentos oncológicos. La denuncia fue presentada por integrantes del Movimiento Nacional por la Salud de Niños con Cáncer, Fundación Nicoatole A.C. y De Corazón A.C.
En México, alrededor de 8 mil niñas de entre 12 y 15 años son madres; en tres de cada 10 embarazos infantiles el responsable es un familiar de menor y apenas entre 4 y 5 por ciento de estos casos llega a denunciarse ante las autoridades, informó Lorena Villavicencio, secretaria ejecutiva del Sistema Nacional de Protección Integral de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes. Villavicencio afirmó que una niña violada debe recibir atención inmediata y no puede ser obligada a continuar con un embarazo producto de una agresión. «Las clínicas de salud tienen la obligación, después de que la Suprema Corte de Justicia declaró que era ilegal obligar a una niña a ser madre, de establecer todas las medidas para que la niña no tenga un hijo producto de la violación», declaró. La funcionaria también llamó a madres y padres de familia a actuar frente a los abusos ocurridos dentro de los hogares.
Este jueves, Miguel Ángel Solano Ruiz, El Capitán Sol, nuevamente comparece ante un juez federal por su presunta participación en una red de huachicol fiscal en aduanas marítimas. La Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) le imputa el delito de delincuencia organizada con la finalidad de cometer delitos en materia de hidrocarburos, en la modalidad de ocultamiento con agravante de servidor público. Debido a que este delito amerita prisión preventiva de oficio, El Capitán Sol permanece en la cárcel federal de máxima seguridad de El Altiplano, hasta que el juez del Centro de Justicia Penal Federal de Almoloya determine si lo vincula a proceso.
El penal del Altiplano, cárcel de máxima seguridad que alberga a cinco exgobernadores del país, recibió la calificación más baja desde el año 2020 por parte de la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH). El Diagnóstico Nacional de Supervisión Penitenciaria lo calificó en 2020 con 8.02. Un año más tarde cayó a 7.23 y desde entonces mejoró su calificación hasta llegar a 8.62 en el año 2024.
Un juez federal ordenó la libertad de los sentenciados José Alberto Loera, El Voltaje, Héctor Javier Montoya, La Rana, integrantes de Los Zetas, involucrados en el incendio al Casino Royale de Monterrey, que dejó 52 muertos el 25 de agosto de 2011. Según registros judiciales, la libertad fue concedida bajo protesta a partir del 4 de octubre, exclusivamente por lo que hace a la causa penal 162/2011, en la que se acusó a más de una docena de zetas de delincuencia organizada y secuestro.
Un juez de control otorgó la libertad al empresario Jorge Enrique Alberts Ponce, presuntamente implicado en redes de huachicol y vinculado al dueño de Miss Universo, Raúl Rocha Cantú, luego de ser detenido por el delito de violación la tarde del martes. En la audiencia inicial por el cumplimiento de la orden de aprehensión, el agente del Ministerio Público hizo la imputación formal en su contra por la violación que presuntamente cometió en 2024 en contra de su expareja, Brianda Hernández. Durante la audiencia, que duró poco más de dos horas en la sala 9 de oralidad, ubicada en la calle Doctor Lavista, colonia Doctores, el juez tuvo conocimiento de que el empresario contaba con un amparo que imposibilitaba su detención, por lo que tuvo que ser liberado de manera inmediata.
Un juez de control otorgó el cambio de medida cautelar de prisión preventiva oficiosa a Ricardo Thompson Navarro, coacusado del exgobernador de Baja California Ernesto Ruffo Appel, para que enfrente en prisión domiciliaria cargos por huachicol ferroviario. Es el quinto coacusado del caso que obtiene este beneficio. Según el expediente, Thompson Navarro raba junto con Ruffo Appel la empresa Ingemar para el contrabando de millones de litros de combustibles de Estados Unidos a México.
El fallo contra Javier Duarte por el desvío de fondos federales durante su gestión como gobernador de Veracruz se pospuso hasta 2027. Ello, mientras él y su defensa insisten en que no se apropió de recurso público alguno. El plazo original que el juez a cargo del caso había dado para que se cerrara la fase de investigación complementaria la FGR presentara la acusación formal contra el exmandatario y las pruebas de cara al juicio venció en agosto, sin embargo, a petición de las partes el juez dio una prórroga. La decisión se tomó en una audiencia el 24 de septiembre. El nuevo plazo vencerá justo en Nochebuena, con la posibilidad de que todavía pueda prorrogarse tres meses más.
El gobierno federal pagó 592.3 millones de pesos en becas a 67 mil 142 beneficiarios cuyos datos obtuvieron un resultado negativo al ser confrontados con el Registro Nacional de Población, de acuerdo con la fiscalización realizada a los programas de Becas para el Bienestar Benito Juárez de educación básica, media superior y superior. La revisión, parte del Informe del Resultado de la Fiscalización 2025 de la Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno (SABG), detectó además que casi 95 mil tarjetas que no fueron entregadas se reportaron como activas.
El director general del Centro Nacional de Control del Gas Natural (Cenagas), Cuitláhuac García, informó que hace una semana EU avisó que dejaría de enviar alrededor de 20 por ciento del gas natural que el País recibe por gasoductos. El exgobernador morenista de Veracruz calificó la situación como «crítica» y estimó que, ante un corte total de las importaciones, México tendría capacidad para enfrentar la contingencia sólo por tres días mediante el gas disponible en la red otras maniobras operativas.
El Segundo Tribunal Colegiado en Materia Administrativa del Primer Circuito en la ciudad de México determinó que la comunicación y retransmisión de obras audiovisuales en televisión abierta y restringida de forma íntegra, simultánea y sin modificaciones, no constituye una infracción en materia de comercio, conforme la Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor. El Tribunal indicó que esta retransmisión no requiere de una autorización del titular cuando la obra se transmitió por televisión abierta y solo se reprodujo en tiempo real, tanto a través de la empresa de cable como en las habitaciones del hotel.
El Segundo Tribunal Colegiado en Materia Civil del Séptimo Circuito en Veracruz protegió el derecho a una pensión justa y ordenó la liquidación de la sociedad conyugal. Analizó el caso de una mujer que promovió un juicio de divorcio incausado, es decir, que no requiere justificación ni consentimiento de la otra parte. El Tribunal advirtió la desventaja económica de la mujer frente a su expareja y señaló que las personas juzgadoras deben fijar una pensión alimenticia provisional para garantizar la subsistencia de quien la necesita.
Lo anterior, luego de admitir el juicio de amparo que presentó en su momento el gerente general de la paramunicipal en Piedras Negras, tal y como lo ordenó el Tribunal Colegiado en Materia Administrativa y Civil del Octavo Circuito. Conforme a lo dado a conocer por fuentes del citado juzgado, dicha resolución se generó, una vez que se recibieron los informes solicitados a las autoridades del municipio de Piedras Negras y la Contraloría Municipal; para conocer el estatus del proceso administrativo contra Lorenzo Menera Sierra. Y es que, en el expediente por faltas administrativas no graves, se le informó que la Contraloría Municipal informó que ya se concluyó con la destitución y la inhabilitación.
La empresa Pacific Lifestyle Properties deberá demoler dos torres del lujoso condominio Punta Paraíso construidas irregularmente en San Pancho, Nayarit, luego de que un tribunal colegiado en materia administrativa del primer circuito le negó por unanimidad la protección de la justicia federal. Así lo informó la Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (Profepa), quien indicó que, tras un litigio de seis años, la autoridad judicial negó ayer en sesión un amparo. Con ello, subrayó, fueron confirmadas las sanciones que impuso a la empresa derivado del incumplimiento de la concesión y por afectaciones a la Zona Federal Marítimo Terrestre y terrenos ganados al mar en la comunidad San Francisco, municipio de Bahía de Banderas.
Familiares y amigos de Nancy Moreno, asesinada en 2007, protestaron ayer frente a instalaciones del Poder Judicial, en Insurgentes Sur. Manifestantes bloquearon la vialidad en ambos sentidos, en la Colonia San Angel, pero posteriormente se replegaron hacia la acera altura de La Bombilla. Reclamaron que el sujeto detenido sentenciado por el feminicidio de la joven obtuvo una reducción de condena. Los deudos portaban pancartas en las que advertían que el responsable podría salir de prisión. La protesta se realizó debido a una audiencia como parte del amparo que familiares promovieron para impedir la reducción de la condena, que originalmente sería de más de 50 años.
Después de los llamados del Gobierno para que vecinos que se oponen permitan terminar las obras del Plan Hídrico en San Gregorio Atlapulco, en Xochimilco, con presupuesto de 372 millones de pesos, la población quedó dividida en dos grupos. A favor, se encuentran los habitantes urbanos que buscan evitar más encharcamientos, como ocurre en el callejón inundado en medio del mercado; en contra, están los productores agrícolas que emplean chinampas, quienes rechazan recibir más aguas negras de Milpa Alta. El dirigente y chinampero, Sócrates Galicia, explicó que se oponen porque la consulta indígena del Plan Hídrico -impulsado por la Secretaría de Gestión Integral del Agua (Segiagua)- no se hizo y de 35 mil habitantes, apenas 395 personas las aprobaron. Además de que, dijo, esta votación se realizó en una sesión invalidada por un amparo ignorado por el Gobierno, el cual ordenaba reponer el procedimiento.
La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) atrajo ayer un amparo para determinar si las comunidades indígenas y afromexicanas deben cumplir requisitos socioeconómicos para acceder a fondos federales y fijar criterios sobre su administración directa. Por unanimidad, el Pleno aceptó la solicitud del presidente de la Corte, Hugo Aguilar, (el de los zapatos lustrados) para analizar el amparo en revisión 148/2026, promovido por la comunidad nahua de Ahuatitla, en San Felipe Orizatlán, Hidalgo, excluida del listado de beneficiarios del Fondo de Aportaciones para la Infraestructura Social de los Pueblos y Comunidades Indígenas y Afromexicanas (Faispiam), coordinado por la Secretaría de Bienestar.
La ministra Yasmín Esquivel Mossa se reunió el día de ayer con el magistrado Andrés Aguilera, presidente del Tribunal de Justicia Administrativa de la ciudad de México. Durante el encuentro se señalaron algunos de los retos que enfrentan juzgados y tribunales en materia de resoluciones judiciales. De igual manera, se conversó sobre el papel de la Transformación del Poder Judicial y la importancia de trabajar de manera coordinada para acercar la justicia a quienes más la necesitan.
El Máximo Tribunal determinó que el Congreso morelense invadió la competencia de la Comisión Estatal al obligarle a destinar recursos para el pago de pensiones y jubilaciones y a preferir su pago sobre otras obligaciones o gastos. Por ello, la Corte invalidó diversas disposiciones del Decreto del Presupuesto de Egresos del Gobierno de Morelos que disponían esa obligación.
La serie Timbiriche mostrará la parte menos luminosa de la famosa banda pop que musicalizó la década de 1980 en México y otros países de Latinoamérica. Sus canciones, las coreografías, las voces y el carácter de cada uno de sus integrantes también están ahí, pero una parte de la historia que no se había visto antes se presenta por primera vez en pantalla: el abuso por parte del fundador y productor Luis de Llano Macedo contra la integrante Sasha Sokol y que llevó a una ratificación de condena por parte de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación de México.
La producción de autopartes en México nuevamente registró cifras récord durante julio del 2026, al ascender su valor a 10,850 millones de dólares, lo que muestra un crecimiento de 7.15% respecto a igual mes de 2025, informó este miércoles la Industria Nacional de Autopartes (INA). La variable ha crecido de forma prácticamente ininterrumpida desde junio del 2025, desafiando el endurecimiento de la política arancelaria de Estados Unidos desde abril del año pasado.
Conforme la estadística de Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR), el tráfico de pasajeros en los aeropuertos de Cancún y Cozumel, dos de los principales puntos de entrada aérea al Caribe mexicano, registró una contracción interanual entre enero y septiembre. Y el de Tulum tuvo un desplome. La terminal aérea de este último destino turístico inició operaciones el 1 de diciembre de 2023, en el Gobierno de AMLO. Frente a ese descenso, siete aerolíneas han anunciado su retirada del aeropuerto de Tulum: las mexicanas Aeroméxico y Volaris, además de Jetblue, Avianca, Copa Airlines y Discover Airlines. Ayer se sumó American Airlines que se retirará en enero de 2027.
Luego de una marcada mejoría en 2024, la confianza en las instituciones del Estado del país ha bajado en los dos últimos años, según revela el estudio Latinobarómetro 2026. La encuesta, realizada en 17 países de la región, indica una ligera reducción de la confianza de las y los mexicanos en las Fuerzas Armadas, de 52 a 50 por ciento entre 2024 y 2026; de 28 a 26 por ciento en el caso de la confianza en la policía; de 32 a 29 por ciento, en el caso del Congreso de la Unión; de 35 a 28 por ciento en la confianza en el Poder Judicial, y una disminución de 30a 18 por ciento en lo referente a los partidos políticos.
La falta de conocimiento sobre los procesos de exportación, la complejidad aduanera vigente y las necesidades de infraestructura logística que registra el territorio a parte de las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (mipymes) mexicanas fuera del comercio exterior, justo cuando la integración productiva norteamericana abre nuevas oportunidades para incorporarlas a cadenas regionales de valor.
La Cámara de Diputados aprobó la nueva Ley General para el Fortalecimiento y Armonización Catastral y Registral, con la que se busca establecer mecanismos de coordinación entre la Federación, los estados y los municipios para modernizar, actualizar y homologar los catastros y los registros públicos de la propiedad. La discusión estuvo marcada por las diferencias entre Morena y la oposición sobre los posibles efectos de la nueva legislación en el cobro del impuesto predial.
Durante el debate, los grupos de oposición acusaron que la normativa busca incrementar de forma indirecta el cobro del impuesto predial. Al respecto, Arturo Yáñez Cuéllar, legislador del PRI, sostuvo que la propuesta federal amplía la base gravable y se convertirá en un «predialazo» al elevar las valuaciones catastrales de los inmuebles. En el mismo sentido, la legisladora Carmen Rocío González Alonso (PAN) responsabilizó al grupo mayoritario del impacto financiero sobre los contribuyentes, mientras que su compañera de bancada, Nancy Aracely Olguín Díaz, alertó sobre los riesgos de concentrar la información inmobiliaria y los datos de la población en la Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones sin contrapesos institucionales.
Por unanimidad, el Senado aprobó reformas a la Ley General de Turismo para combatir la explotación sexual de niños y adolescentes. Con ello, los prestadores de servicios tendrán que requerir a los turistas acompañados de menores de edad que acrediten el parentesco, la patria potestad, tutela o custodia que tengan con ellos.
El Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía (Inegi) participará en las tareas de homologación del cobro de predial que dependencias federales realizarán con autoridades locales. De acuerdo con la nueva Ley General para el Fortalecimiento y Armonización Catastral y Registral, propuesta por la presidente Claudia Sheinbaum, y aprobada ayer en la Cámara de Diputados, el organismo se unirá a la Secretaría de Desarrollo Agrario, Territorial y Urbano (Sedatu) y la Agencia de Transformación Digital y Telecomunicaciones en el fortalecimiento, modernización, homologación y actualización de los catastros y registros públicos de la propiedad en todo el país.
Tras seis horas de debates, los diputados aprobaron la iniciativa de reformas a la Ley Federal de Derecho de Autor, en materia de responsabilidad secundaria de proveedores de servicios de internet, que ordena que estos proveedores deberán bajar de las redes sociales alusiones que hagan mal uso de la voz, de imágenes, música, obras literarias o artísticas, películas o cualquier tipo de obra audiovisual que sea utilizada, incluso con inteligencia artificial, como ocurre con los generadores de «memes» y «parodias digitales».
Con el aval de todas las fuerzas políticas, el Senado aprobó hoy cambios a la Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor que castigarán con fuertes multas a las empresas que insistan en el acoso telefónico a ciudadanos con fines comerciales o publicitarios. La reforma, aprobada con 96 votos a favor y cero en contra, establece una multa mínima de 56 mil 570 pesos, que puede alcanzar 2 millones 400 mil pesos, sanción encaminada a evitar que representantes de bancos, aseguradoras y otros prestadores de servicios insistan en llamadas telefónicas, aun cuando los afectados haya expresado su negativa a recibir publicidad.
Morena festejó sus 15 años como movimiento político con un acto en el Auditorio Nacional al que asistió todo su Comité Ejecutivo, gobernadores, militantes, miembros fundadores dirigentes locales. Entre muestras de apoyo, la dirigente nacional del partido, Ariadna Montiel, expresó que «Morena tiene, frente a este momento, la responsabilidad histórica de respaldar a nuestra Presidente, a mantener viva la organización ya estar cerca del pueblo. No podemos permitir que los cargos nos alejen de las causas ni que el poder nos aleje de la gente».
En un encuentro con senadores integrantes de la Comisión de Economía, una delegación de funcionarios de alto nivel del Congreso de Estados Unidos advirtió ayer que ni Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) ni la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) tienen capacidad para abastecer energía a proyectos de Data Centers y de Inteligencia Artificial. “Los Data center e IA requieren energía, Pemex y CFE no tienen capacidad”, alertaron. Durante un encuentro en el Senado para abordar, entre otros, temas la certidumbre jurídica para la inversión productiva, la competitividad y la seguridad, los funcionarios también cuestionaron los resultados que arrojó la reforma al Poder Judicial que impuso Morena el año pasado.
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