2025 Neuroscience Highlights: Key Discoveries and Future Predictions

In 2025, significant advancements in consciousness research included exploring the possibility of universal consciousness before the Big Bang, recognizing consciousness as more widespread and ancient across species, breakthroughs in psychedelic therapy and altered states, progress in competing theories of consciousness, and increased attention to near-death experiences and their psychological impact, marking a shift towards viewing consciousness as a tangible scientific frontier.