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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint posted on medRxiv reported that resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) neural slowing after stroke tracked secondary thalamic degeneration measured on structural MRI, even though the sampled patients did not have direct thalamic lesi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in International Journal of Molecular Medicine mapped how exercise and fluoxetine overlap in Alzheimer’s disease mechanisms such as mitochondrial quality control, oxidative stress, inflammation, and neuroplasticity, but clinical combinatio…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint posted on medRxiv reported that larger choroid plexus volume on brain MRI was associated with greater disability in multiple sclerosis and with higher white-matter myo-inositol in progressive MS, but the work has not yet been peer review…
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TL;DR: A 2026 case study in International Medical Case Reports Journal described a 42-year-old man whose chronic insomnia improved after celiac disease was diagnosed and treated with a gluten-free diet, but the report cannot prove gluten exposure caused the sl…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Danish register study in British Journal of Health Psychology found that higher divorce conflict was linked to more prescriptions, more primary care visits, and higher hospitalisation odds across the years around legal divorce. Key Findings 1,784…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health found that adding celecoxib to antidepressants was linked to lower depressive symptom scores in 7 small trials, but the efficacy evidence was rated very low certainty. Ke…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease found that choroid plexus volume, an MRI-visible structure involved in cerebrospinal-fluid regulation and immune signaling, was larger in Alzheimer’s disease than in healthy co…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Nature Communications found that neuropsychiatric disorder risk did not map onto cognition as one general trait. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism, and Alzheimer’s disease showed different genetic links with reaction time, fl…
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TL;DR: A 2026 secondary analysis in Addiction found that adults switched to very-low-nicotine cigarettes often used alternative nicotine products and maintained much higher nicotine intake than cigarette-only users. Key Findings 438 smokers: The parent randomi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 real-world study in Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use was associated with lower 3-year cardiovascular-event risk in adults with obesity and obstructive sleep apnea. Key Findings 18,523 matc…
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