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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Cell Reports used electroencephalography (EEG), a brain-wave recording method, in 92 nappers to identify four mental states across wakefulness, sleep onset, and light sleep, including a bizarre dream-like state with reduced frontal-occip…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized clinical trial in JAMA Network Open found that one supervised 30 mg/70 kg psilocybin dose plus cognitive behavioral therapy produced 40.5% six-month smoking abstinence versus 10.0% with a nicotine patch plus the same therapy. Key Findi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in the International Journal of Transgender Health found that transgender respondents in the 2020 EU LGBTI Survey II reported more discrimination and violence than cisgender lesbian, gay, and bisexual respondents across 30 European countrie…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in PLOS One found that 5 MIDI-assisted group music therapy sessions during psychiatric hospitalization reduced Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) stress scores more than 1 session, while anxiety, depression, life satisf…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial analysis in European Journal of Psychotraumatology found that COPE-A, an integrated exposure-based therapy for youth with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), reduced PTSD symptoms more than supp…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint applied the AT(N) framework, an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker system for amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration, to 84 older adults with focal epilepsy and found that only 32.1% had normal blood biomarkers, while early-onset epileps…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Communications Psychology analyzed 1,687 dream reports and 1,679 waking reports, finding that dreams were more visual, spatial, social, bizarre, and emotionally negative than waking experiences. Key Findings 3,366 reports analyzed: the m…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in The Journal of Neuroscience found that adults with ADHD showed more sleep-like brain waves, known as slow waves, while awake, and those brief local sleep states helped explain lapses in attention and vigilance. Key Findings 32 ADHD adult…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Microbiome found that in older adults at metabolic risk, virgin olive oil was linked to better cognitive preservation and richer gut microbiota, while common refined olive oil pointed the other way. Key Findings Metabolic-risk cohort tra…
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TL;DR: A 2026 three-wave experimental study in Communication Research (N=3,000+ adults across the US and the Netherlands) found that AI-generated political deepfake videos damaged the reputations of targeted politicians even when viewers correctly suspected th…
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