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2 stories tagged "mental-health"

Investigations

The AI Models Just Failed the Clinical Test We Use to Spot Executive Dysfunction

A new PNAS Nexus study put the same Stroop task neuropsychologists use to screen for executive dysfunction in front of GPT-5, Claude Opus, and Gemini. The accuracy collapse arrives months after the FDA quietly loosened oversight of AI clinical decision support.

Brain & Aging

Middle-aged Americans Are Weaker, Lonelier, and Forgetting More Than Their Parents Did at the Same Age

A 17-country study finds U.S. adults in their 50s are doing worse on memory, grip strength, loneliness, and depression than their parents were. The United States is the only country going meaningfully backward.