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TL;DR: A 2026 study in PNAS found that across convention-learning experiments, people explored uncertain options at first, then committed once enough evidence crossed a Tolerance Principle threshold rather than simply copying others or optimizing probabilities…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in Nutrients found that a systematic review of adolescent diet and mental health found the clearest readout for whole dietary patterns, while single nutrients and supplement-style interventions looked less consistent. Key Findings 19 studie…
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TL;DR: A 2026 human microbiome and intervention study in Nature Communications found that coffee drinkers showed distinct gut microbiome composition and lower several microbial metabolites, while caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee shifted stress and mood mea…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in NEJM Evidence found that solriamfetol added 9.4 minutes of objective wakefulness in early-morning shift work disorder after 4 weeks, without a higher overall adverse-event rate than placebo. Key Findings 78 early-morning workers: Partici…
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TL;DR: A 2026 rat study in Neuropsychopharmacology found that chemogenetically inhibiting a prelimbic cortex to nucleus accumbens core pathway blocked cue-triggered cocaine seeking after cocaine alone, but did not block relapse-like behavior after sequential c…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that in 65 continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) adherent patients with obstructive sleep apnea, those who still showed objective daytime sleepiness on a psychomotor vigilance task scored wor…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv trained machine-learning models on Danish electronic health records and found that an XGBoost model predicted clozapine initiation within 365 days with an AUROC of 0.81 in patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorde…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in O&G Open found that cannabis exposure 2–7 years after a first pregnancy was not associated with incident hypertension after adjustment in the nuMoM2b Heart Health Study. Key Findings No adjusted hypertension association: Cannabis exposur…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Cell Chemical Biology found that alzheimer’s inflammation may be driven by a specific chemical switch: S-nitrosylation of STING at cysteine 148, which pushed innate immune signaling toward synaptic damage. Key Findings STING carried the…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in The British Journal of Psychiatry found that people with anxiety disorders showed hyper-scanning during neutral image viewing and hyper-pursuit during moving-dot tracking, suggesting that eye-tracking could capture measurable patterns of…
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