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TL;DR: A 2026 study in eLife found that infants’ brains responded more strongly to structured children’s music than shuffled music by 3 months, while clearer music-linked movement patterns appeared mainly by 12 months. Key Findings 79 infants tested: Researche…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in Nature Communications found that deleting ankyrin-2 (Ank2) from hippocampal astrocytes left recent memory intact but weakened remote memory, pointing to astrocyte structure as part of how memories stay stable over time. Key Finding…
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TL;DR: A 2026 narrative review in Clinical Drug Investigation argued that desvenlafaxine, a serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), may be a first-line major depressive disorder option for selected patients, especially when fatigue, cognitive compla…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that stroke survivors doing motor imagery showed changing brain-heart coupling across rehabilitation sessions, especially between cardiac sympathetic activity and electroencephalography (EEG) beta-band network clustering…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint posted on medRxiv reported that resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) neural slowing after stroke tracked secondary thalamic degeneration measured on structural MRI, even though the sampled patients did not have direct thalamic lesi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in International Journal of Molecular Medicine mapped how exercise and fluoxetine overlap in Alzheimer’s disease mechanisms such as mitochondrial quality control, oxidative stress, inflammation, and neuroplasticity, but clinical combinatio…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint posted on medRxiv reported that larger choroid plexus volume on brain MRI was associated with greater disability in multiple sclerosis and with higher white-matter myo-inositol in progressive MS, but the work has not yet been peer review…
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TL;DR: A 2026 case study in International Medical Case Reports Journal described a 42-year-old man whose chronic insomnia improved after celiac disease was diagnosed and treated with a gluten-free diet, but the report cannot prove gluten exposure caused the sl…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Bipolar Disorders found that poor medication adherence in bipolar disorder was linked to substance use, psychotic features, lower insight, poorer functioning, and several markers of more severe illness, but…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Danish register study in British Journal of Health Psychology found that higher divorce conflict was linked to more prescriptions, more primary care visits, and higher hospitalisation odds across the years around legal divorce. Key Findings 1,784…
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