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TL;DR: A 2026 meta-analysis in BMC Psychiatry found a moderate cross-sectional association between body dysmorphic disorder symptoms and perfectionism across 34 studies and 13,107 participants. Key Findings 34-study meta-analysis: The review pooled 34 studies…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in PLOS Computational Biology found that people overestimated an opponent’s competitiveness after betrayal, especially when they chose to watch the opponent instead of controlling their own avatar. Key Findings 62-person social task: 62 adu…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in Nature found that the astrocyte glucocorticoid receptor pathway helped mature visual cortex circuitry and restricted ocular dominance plasticity, linking light exposure, stress-hormone input, and astrocyte-driven circuit closure. K…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in the International Journal of General Medicine found that rapid ASPECTS scoring on non-contrast CT and CT perfusion core-infarct volume predicted 90-day outcomes similarly in 82 acute ischemic stroke patients treated with endovascular the…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized feasibility trial in Nature Medicine found that gait-synchronized adaptive deep brain stimulation was feasible and safe in 5 people with Parkinson’s disease, with early findings of improved gait symmetry, lower variability, and fewer r…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Nature Neuroscience study used cross-species functional MRI (fMRI) connectivity to identify hypoconnectivity and hyperconnectivity autism subtypes linked to different synaptic and immune-related biological pathways. Key Findings 20 mouse models:…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in Drug Design, Development and Therapy argued that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, drugs that mimic a metabolic hormone involved in glucose control, have credible brain-protection mechanisms, but clinical evidence for n…
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TL;DR: A 2026 longitudinal study in Cerebral Cortex linked neighborhood disadvantage in childhood to lower adolescent cortical thickness and surface area, while better educational and health/environmental opportunities tracked greater MRI-estimated cortical th…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in bioRxiv found that Magnetic Resonance Artificial Intelligence Velocimetry (MR-AIV), a physics-informed AI method for estimating brain fluid transport, produced stable velocity and permeability maps across several modeling stress tests…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in Journal of the American Chemical Society used photochemistry to turn amino-acid-linked tryptamines into azocinoindoles that activated serotonin 5-HT2A signaling while suppressing the mouse head-twitch response. Key Findings C4 indole rou…
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