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TL;DR: A 2026 Research Square preprint used silent verb-generation functional MRI (fMRI), brain imaging during covert word production, and found early cerebellar-cerebral language-network changes after radiotherapy in 31 children and adolescents treated for me…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint reanalyzed long-term survivors from the AB10015 ALS trial and reported that masitinib-treated patients had higher 5-year survival than historical benchmarks, but the analysis was post hoc, sponsor-supported, and lacked long-term…
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TL;DR: A 2026 network meta-analysis in International Clinical Psychopharmacology found that lurasidone and xanomeline-trospium improved global cognitive scores in schizophrenia-spectrum randomized trials, while quetiapine and cariprazine ranked best for attent…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint reported that bedside 64 mT portable MRI scans from ECMO patients could support brain-volume analysis, with segmented volumes broadly comparable to conventional MRI and low-field MRI scans without ECMO equipment. Key Findings 30…
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TL;DR: A 2024 study in Sociological Forum found that identity-politics measures statistically explained much of the link between progressive ideology and lower self-reported well-being in the 2021 Baylor Religion Survey. Key Findings Well-being gap: Progressiv…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Scientific Reports reported that NeXtSwin-X, a dual-branch AI model combining ConvNeXt and Swin Transformer features, achieved strong brain tumor classification performance across eight public MRI and CT datasets after only 10 training e…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Reviews in the Neurosciences review argues that glycolysis, the cell pathway that turns glucose into usable energy and lactate, is a disease-shaping process across Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, Huntington’s disease, Wilson diseas…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in Nature Reviews Neurology argued that neural extracellular matrix (ECM), the protein-and-glycan scaffold around central nervous system cells, is an active regulator of brain plasticity and neurological disease. Key Findings Multiple ECM…
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TL;DR: A 2026 electroencephalography (EEG) study in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience found that observers’ empathy-for-pain ratings and physiological coupling stayed similar whether they watched another person receive painful stimulation through…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in PLOS One reported that an artificial intelligence model combining enhanced graph attention with bidirectional long short-term memory classified emotion from text, speech, facial cues, and video benchmarks with its strongest performance o…
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