Brian Christian was part of a team behind a landmark study that found that spending just 10 minutes relying on an AI tool significantly impairs our ability to focus and persist with difficult tasks. A preliminary draft made waves earlier this year, and the team presented the updated, peer-reviewed paper this week at the Conference on Language Modeling. “It’s a striking finding, but in a way it supplies ammunition for a story that a lot of us kind of feel in our gut,” said Christian, a research fellow with the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI. “I experience it too.”

The 2026 awards position Center for BrainHealth researchers to compete for multimillion-dollar state grants from the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (DPRIT) to accelerate and scale translational research over the coming decade. In addition to emerging scientists, this year included awards to principal investigators.

A study by the Federal University of São Paulo indicates that adolescents involved in multiple contexts of violence are 11 times more likely to develop mental health issues, reinforcing the urgency of integrating anti-bullying efforts with drug prevention in schools.

A New Horizon Europe project will introduce a novel approach to a stronger and more inclusive conversation and communication about climate change and the biodiversity crisis.

Filipino teen parents use photographs to show the challenges of growing up while raising children, helping Ateneo researchers shape parenting support.

Feeling confident that a romantic relationship will remain stable may be important for how people experience their relationships, finds a study by researchers at Waseda University and Nagoya University. Comparing gay and heterosexual men, the researchers found higher levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance and lower perceived relationship stability among gay men. The study suggests that differences in attachment may be linked not only to experiences within relationships, but also to the surrounding social environment.

New research from University of Notre Dame psychologist Kaylin Hill has found that parents’ child-rearing methods during the preschool years coincide with how that child experiences joy and satisfaction across adolescence—a period during which the risk for mental health issues is at its highest. Her work seeks to help reduce the burden and strain of depression on individuals and families by finding ways to pinpoint its cause and intervene with timely support.