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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv reported that SenseCheQ, a home quantitative sensory testing device, produced reliable vibration and temperature-threshold measurements in 30 healthy adults and tracked early sensory changes in 3 breast cancer patients receivi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 scoping review in Sleep Science linked seasonal timing, daylight exposure, daylight saving time (DST), sleep-wake rhythm disruption, and driver drowsiness to traffic-crash risk, but found that few studies directly integrate seasonality with chron…
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TL;DR: A 2026 population-based matched cohort study in British Journal of Psychiatry found that risperidone use was associated with increased stroke risk, adjusted hazard ratio 1.28, while absolute stroke incidence was especially high in people with prior stro…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized pilot trial in European Journal of Psychotraumatology found no overall PTSD advantage when refugee-focused emotion-regulation skills training was added before narrative exposure therapy, but refugees living with high visa or family ins…
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TL;DR: A 2026 HomePAP secondary analysis in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that higher PAP mask leak predicted lower obstructive sleep apnea treatment adherence, but a new Real Leak measure, unintentional leak after subtracting expected mask leak, di…
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TL;DR: A 2026 birth cohort study in Environment & Health linked low-level prenatal lead exposure to lower infant Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3) developmental scores, with FAM50B/PTCHD3 DNA methylation markers explaining part of the association. Key Find…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Pain Research described 3 adults with type I complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a severe neuropathic pain condition with sensory, autonomic, motor, and skin changes, whose pain scores improved after pregabalin and who were…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Pain Research found that spinal cord stimulation and dorsal root entry zone lesioning reduced pain for selected patients with refractory postherpetic neuralgia, but the evidence came from a 10-patient single-center series. Key…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that nonverbal Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to infer another person’s beliefs or perspective, varied in 44 adults with post-stroke aphasia and was more closely tied to vascular brain-health markers than to aphasia seve…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint linked higher blood inflammatory markers with diffusion MRI signs of altered white-matter microstructure in 457 dementia-free middle-aged and older adults, especially for a combined cytokine score and orientation dispersion index…
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