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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that routine non-contrast brain computed tomography (CT) had a low acute-pathology yield in 291 emergency patients with new dizziness, while diabetes, ataxic gait, and headache marked higher odds of abnormal CT findings.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint used functional MRI (fMRI) and complex harmonics decomposition to study mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in 80 people with major depressive disorder, reporting post-treatment changes in whole-brain manifolds during rumination.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Nature Communications paper introduced EmulatRx, a multi-agent AI framework that used real-world clinical data to help design target-trial-emulation workflows for acute and chronic diseases, including Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease examp…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Archives of Women’s Mental Health linked prenatal active tobacco smoking with higher odds of postpartum depression, while secondhand smoke and electronic nicotine-product estimates were not statistically cle…
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TL;DR: A 2026 case-control study in Psychological Medicine linked major depressive disorder to faster blood-based transcriptomic aging and found that right-insula brain changes partly explained the depression association. Key Findings Transcriptomic aging was…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in Molecular Autism found that a culturally adapted parent-implemented social communication program was linked to language, social-functioning, parent self-efficacy, and stress gains in Chinese-speaking autistic preschoolers, wit…
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TL;DR: A 2026 meta-analysis in PLOS One found clinically important sleep problems in refugee and asylum-seeking populations, with pooled sleep-adversity prevalence of 43.2% in adults and 36.4% in children and adolescents. Key Findings 66 studies reviewed: The…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that poor sleep tracked faster biological aging across more than 64,000 adults, but twin and genetic analyses left the causal claim mixed rather than settled. Key Findings 64,000+ adults: Researchers tested sleep and agi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in BMC Anesthesiology found that adding an esketamine-adjuvanted stellate ganglion block to intraoperative esketamine plus dexmedetomidine reduced early postoperative sleep disturbance after gynecological laparoscopic surgery. Ke…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Autism Research found that autistic children with early speech delay needed longer sound gaps to detect timing changes, but detected smaller pitch-frequency changes than typically developing peers. Key Findings 21 autistic children were…
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