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TL;DR: A 2026 iScience study found that both humans and rats could report their own timing errors in a 2-second task, but rats made more accurate error-based choices than humans. Key Findings Matched timing task: Researchers compared 34 adults with 16 male Spr…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Nature study found that training language models to sound warmer made them less accurate across factual, medical, and misinformation tasks, with error rates rising by about 5 to 9 percentage points by task and sycophancy increasing when users exp…
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TL;DR: A 2026 functional MRI (fMRI) study in Translational Psychiatry found that counterconditioning, a form of exposure learning that replaces a threat cue with a positive outcome, strengthened safety-memory signals in adults with PTSD more than standard exti…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in Thinking & Reasoning found that twelfth graders outperformed seventh graders on fast probability reasoning, but adult-like logical intuition was still not fully developed by the end of high school. Key Findings More than 300 French stude…
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TL;DR: A 2026 protocol in PLOS One describes a 90-person pilot randomized controlled trial that will test whether virtual reality mindfulness can reduce depression, anxiety, stress, and caregiver burden in family caregivers of people with dementia. Key Finding…
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TL;DR: A 2026 npj Parkinson’s Disease study used brain transcriptome data and genome-scale metabolic modeling to predict Parkinson’s metabolite biomarkers, including dopamine-related changes, and separated 104 postmortem samples into three metabolic clusters.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 population-based study in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry found that early-life adversity scores were linked to higher group-level mental health risk but performed poorly for identifying which Canadian adults had anxiety, mood disorders, subst…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Acta Neuropsychiatrica found no clear evidence that parenteral clomipramine is better than oral clomipramine for depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder, with low or very low certainty across the main ra…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in Psychiatry Research surveyed 558 Palestinian refugees displaced to Egypt after the 2023 Gaza war and used Bayesian network analysis to map their psychological symptoms; suicidal ideation emerged as the central hub for bot…
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TL;DR: A 2026 secondary randomized-trial analysis in Journal of Medical Internet Research found that both online MBCT formats reduced psychological distress and improved well-being through 9 months, while people with fewer psychological resources appeared to g…
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