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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Brain found that creativity in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia tracked a rostral prefrontal cortex gradient, meaning the functional separation between default-mode and executive-control networks predicted creative performance.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 trial in Journal of Psychopharmacology found that repeated supervised psilocybin sessions reduced Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) scores, a standard measure of obsession and compulsion severity, in 15 adults with OCD. Key Findings 7…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mixed-methods study in BMC Psychiatry found that adults in psychiatric treatment valued group-based physical activity less as generic exercise and more as structured, socially supported care, with 97% of questionnaire participants saying they fel…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy built a Parkinson’s visual hallucination mouse model and found that a combined behavior map identified hallucination-like episodes better than any single movement measure. Key Findings Model: Rese…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that deep brain stimulation for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder was followed by lower globus pallidus externus alpha-band activity in clinically responsive patients, suggesting a possible brain readout of sustained…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in The Journal of Physiology found that damaging noise temporarily disrupted sound-offset responses in a brainstem hearing circuit, but those timing responses partly recovered within 24 hours through rapid circuit adaptation. Key Find…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in European Journal of Social Psychology found that adding flattering Nazi-era propaganda images to atrocity photographs reduced several immediate negative emotions in German viewers across the combined evidence, even though the clearest gu…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in The British Journal of Psychiatry found that a single 50 mg dose of naltrexone reduced distress and shifted threat-related brain activity without blocking people’s ability to reappraise negative images. Key Findings 38 healthy volunteers…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Molecular Psychiatry study tested Regional Vulnerability Index for Alzheimer’s disease (RVI-AD), a structural-MRI score of how closely a person’s brain pattern resembles amyloid-positive Alzheimer’s disease, and found that higher RVI-AD predicted…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in Journal of the American Chemical Society found that a depression-linked gut bacterium now has a concrete inflammatory mechanism: Morganella morganii can make unusual phospholipids that activate TLR2/TLR1 and drive IL-6. Key Findings Morg…
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