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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint on schizophrenia reported that illness insight tracked with resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) flexibility, a measure of how dynamically brain regions reconfigure their connectivity, and that these brain-dynamics patterns aligne…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Molecular Neurobiology found that plasma phosphorylated tau 217 (p-tau217), a blood marker of Alzheimer-linked tau pathology, identified biomarker-defined Alzheimer’s disease with pooled sensitivity of 85.4%…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Science of the Total Environment followed nearly 295,000 Southern California births and linked extreme nighttime heat in early and late pregnancy to higher autism diagnosis by age 5, while daytime heat was not associated. Key Findings A…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint tested SimulAD, an Alzheimer’s disease progression simulator, and reported that it reproduced mean amyloid-clearance results within 5% error across six major phase III anti-amyloid trials while also separating positive trials fro…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in the Journal of Eating Disorders found that higher sensation seeking, a personality trait involving pursuit of novel or intense experiences, was linked to more restraint and overeating in 400 German adolescents, with stronger disordered-e…
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TL;DR: A 2026 longitudinal study in Personality and Individual Differences followed 346 Turkish young adults across two survey waves three months apart and found that childhood psychological abuse predicted lower adult relationship satisfaction, with a reduced…
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TL;DR: A 12-month four-wave longitudinal study in Psychological Science (N=2,149 adults across the UK, US, Canada, and Australia) found that feeling more emotionally isolated predicted higher chatbot use four months later — and that higher chatbot use, in turn…
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TL;DR: A 2026 exploratory study in Nature Communications found that a first 25 mg psilocybin dose in 28 psychedelic-naive adults increased electroencephalography (EEG), a scalp recording of brain electrical activity, entropy during the acute session and that e…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health found that depression symptoms, alcohol use, and alcohol use disorder (AUD) symptoms were not associated with C-reactive protein (CRP), a blood inflammation marker, or a pro-inflammatory cytokine inde…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in JAMA Network Open tracked 1,338 older adults from the Rush Memory and Aging Project for up to 19 years using objective wrist-actigraphy and found that each additional hour of daytime napping per day was linked to ~13% higher mortality, e…
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