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TL;DR: In an online survey of 126 mothers of toddlers in Taiwan, mothers who reported more depressive symptoms also tended to describe their toddler’s sleep as more of a problem and to report longer times to fall asleep. The link with perceived sleep problems…
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TL;DR: In a small German study of 24 refugee women with trauma symptoms, scores on three symptom questionnaires stayed flat during an 8-week wait, then dropped after 8 weekly dance movement therapy sessions. The group’s average PTSD checklist score slipped jus…
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TL;DR: A review of 17 randomized trials found that women who exercised had lower depression scores than women given usual care, both during pregnancy and after birth. The evidence is rated low to very low certainty, and the studies varied a lot. For anxiety du…
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TL;DR: In a controlled Dutch feeding trial, 41 healthy young adults ate a diet made almost entirely of ultra-processed foods for two weeks, twice. Afterward, the gut hormones that help signal fullness responded to a test meal about the same as they had on the…
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TL;DR: In a crossover trial of 119 adults living near busy highways, a month with a real HEPA air purifier did not clearly speed up a thinking test across the whole group. Among adults 40 and older, though, participants finished the harder test 12% faster afte…
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TL;DR: Researchers used wrist trackers to estimate the sleep stages of 95,559 British adults, then followed their hospital records for about 9 years. Adults who spent more time in REM sleep had lower risk of 83 different diagnoses, and adults sleeping under 5…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in Journal of Medical Internet Research gave adults with elevated depression symptoms the same coach-led group skills program through either a VR headset or a flat screen. Depression scores fell slightly faster in the VR group ov…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that pupil dilation measured inside a virtual reality (VR) headset increased as working-memory load rose in healthy adults, was reproducible 60–90 days later in 33 returnees, and was smaller under the highest load in cognit…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized training study in Nature Communications found that sensory-guided joint learning—a combination of performance-triggered wrist vibration, Copy/New strategy cues, and an adaptive electroencephalography (EEG) decoder—produced a 19.0-perce…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in Nature Communications reported that 10 daily bouts of optogenetic dentate-gyrus stimulation produced weeks-long changes in chromatin, nuclear structure, behavior, and spatial coding, while Cyclin B deletion weakened several effects…
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