Most Popular Content in 2025: Top 10 Countdown
- Published18 Dec 2025
- Author Cyrenna Cooper
- Source BrainFacts/SfN
What’s the neuroscience behind lucid dreaming? How does social media affect our empathy? And why can’t some people imagine sounds?
Throughout 2025, BrainFacts addressed the questions of curious minds. Explore our most popular content by clicking the icons above or the links below.
- The Fascinating Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming
Training the mind to enter this rare state of conscious sleep may bring surprising benefits.
- Interactive 3D Brain and Spinal Cord Model
This 3D model of the central nervous system showcases spinal vertebrae, spinal nerves, and parts of the brain.
- The “Blooming” Field of Neuroarts
Despite major federal funding cuts, researchers are dedicated to determining how engaging in the arts can improve our brain health.
- Lost in the Fog: How Viruses Impact Our Brain Function
Viruses like SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and herpes simplex virus can ignite inflammation to disrupt immune system and brain function, triggering symptoms like brain fog.
- Space-traveled Organoids Help Scientists Study Neurodegeneration
Some scientists are harnessing the unique environment of space to study aging and neurodegeneration by sending brain organoids to the International Space Station.
- Brain Structures Flashcards: Limbic System
Test your knowledge of the limbic system, its structures, and their functions with these flashcards.
- Wired for Connection, Cursed by Computers: How Social Media May Be Affecting Our Empathy
Ben Rein and Maria Tavares have a theory on why online interactions can bring the troll out of any of us.
- Scientists Explore Why Some People Can’t Imagine Sounds
Research on anauralia is scarce. But recently, more scientists are studying how it affects memory, learning, reading, and problem-solving.
- Why Are Some U.K. Schools Banning Smartphones in the Classroom?
Excessive smartphone and internet use can come with cognitive costs for students. How are schools navigating these classroom technology bans?
- This Is Where Your Brain Reads
Researchers have mapped brain activity during reading, identifying specific locations involved in every step of this complex skill.
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About the Author
Cyrenna Cooper is the BrainFacts Web Editor. She graduated from George Mason University in 2017 with a degree in Communications.
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