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TL;DR: A 2026 study in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience linked sustained quetiapine treatment with better high-working-memory cognitive performance in schizophrenia spectrum disorder, but the genetic tests did not support the proposed…
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TL;DR: A 2026 real-world cohort study in The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease found that lecanemab-treated Alzheimer’s patients had lower Neuropsychiatric Inventory scores over follow-up, and 6-month symptom reductions were associated with regional…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in Physiotherapy Research International found that adding active 5 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to dual-task stroke rehabilitation produced larger gains in Timed U…
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TL;DR: A 2026 case study in Biomedical Reports described a 28-year-old woman with bipolar II disorder whose stable subclinical counting compulsion worsened and expanded into new obsessive-compulsive symptoms within 3 days of starting cariprazine, then returned…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint on medRxiv found that blood tau markers and neurofilament light tracked different parts of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with tau markers linked more to current lower-motor-neuron and muscle-injury features while neurofilament lig…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Translational Psychiatry found that ketamine changed EEG-derived high-order brain interactions in late-life treatment-resistant depression, and a 24-hour increase in alpha-band redundancy tracked greater depression improvement by Day 7.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study published in BMC Medicine used lesion network mapping to identify a somatic-symptom brain network centered on the right insula and putamen, then linked atrophy inside that network to somatic symptom severity across 399 psychiatric patients.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that one session of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) reduced cigarette craving in adults with tobacco use disorder, and the people who responded had he…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint linked greater attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom scores in college students to reduced stop-signal functional MRI (fMRI) activation in cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R)-rich brain regions, and that reduced activ…
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TL;DR: A 2026 narrative review in Molecular Psychiatry argues that depression in Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease follows disease-specific brain mechanisms, while standard antidepressant evidence remains weak in these neurodegenerative populations.…
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