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TL;DR: In a study published in 2026, among 501 Syrian refugee teens attending school in Ankara, Türkiye, those who said they bounce back quickly from hard times reported somewhat fewer symptoms of anxiety, stress, depression and trauma-related distress. That l…
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TL;DR: In a 2026 study, researchers interviewed 24 Chinese parents of children with autism about watching short autism videos on apps like Douyin, China's version of TikTok. Parents said the videos taught them practical skills and gave them hope, but endless r…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Dutch study filmed 212 children aged 5 to 12 with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during a 1-hour clinic visit with tasks built to test their patience, once alongside a parent and once with a researcher. Trained coders who watched…
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TL;DR: In a 2026 study, researchers fed brain wave recordings from 121 children, taken while they counted cartoon characters on a screen, into computer programs that learned to tell children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from those witho…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study used worldwide health estimates to compare anxiety disorders in China with G20 countries from 1990 to 2021. In China, the share of people with anxiety, adjusted for age, slowly fell after 2000, but models projected about 22% more total case…
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TL;DR: In a 2026 study in South Korea, 53 older women with memory problems had a blood test for signs of Alzheimer's disease and a brain scan. Among women with 7 or more years of school, worse blood results went with a thinner outer layer of the brain, as expe…
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TL;DR: In people with two copies of the APOE4 gene and mild memory problems, the experimental Alzheimer's pill valiltramiprosate lowered a blood tau marker by 36%, while it rose 17% on placebo. But the main trial missed its primary goal, and this company-run a…
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TL;DR: In two year-long trials of adults with obesity and moderate to severe sleep apnea, the weight-loss drug tirzepatide eased apnea more than placebo in every group checked, whether split by age, sex, weight, neck size or apnea severity. This is a drugmaker…
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TL;DR: Among 450 older stroke survivors in a Chinese hospital who lived with ongoing pain, thinking abilities fell into three patterns, and about 1 in 10 had broad thinking problems. Men and people with depression were more often in the weaker groups, but this…
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TL;DR: In UK Biobank data, people who slept either less than about 6 or more than about 8 hours tended to look biologically older across several organs, and both groups had higher death rates. The "youngest" clocks lined up with roughly 6 to 8 hours of sleep,…
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