TL;DR: A 2026 mixed-methods study in BMC Psychiatry found that adults in psychiatric treatment valued group-based physical activity less as generic exercise and more as structured, socially supported care, with 97% of questionnaire participants saying they felt supported by activity leaders. Key Findings Real-world psychiatric care: The program was embedded in an Oslo outpatient clinic …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy built a Parkinson’s visual hallucination mouse model and found that a combined behavior map identified hallucination-like episodes better than any single movement measure. Key Findings Model: Researchers used 6-OHDA to create Parkinson-like dopamine injury in male C57BL/6 mice, then used benzhexol hydrochloride to trigger Parkinson’s …
TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that deep brain stimulation for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder was followed by lower globus pallidus externus alpha-band activity in clinically responsive patients, suggesting a possible brain readout of sustained DBS response. Key Findings 10 severe OCD patients: Researchers recorded local field potentials from the anterior globus pallidus externus (GPe) …
TL;DR: A 2026 Molecular Psychiatry study tested Regional Vulnerability Index for Alzheimer’s disease (RVI-AD), a structural-MRI score of how closely a person’s brain pattern resembles amyloid-positive Alzheimer’s disease, and found that higher RVI-AD predicted conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia most strongly in the first 3 years. Key Findings 571-person reference map: Researchers built …
TL;DR: A 2026 Research Square preprint used silent verb-generation functional MRI (fMRI), brain imaging during covert word production, and found early cerebellar-cerebral language-network changes after radiotherapy in 31 children and adolescents treated for medulloblastoma. Key Findings 31 pediatric patients: Children and adolescents with medulloblastoma completed silent verb-generation fMRI before radiotherapy and again within 6 weeks …
TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint reanalyzed long-term survivors from the AB10015 ALS trial and reported that masitinib-treated patients had higher 5-year survival than historical benchmarks, but the analysis was post hoc, sponsor-supported, and lacked long-term placebo follow-up. Key Findings Five-year survival was 42.3%: 55 of 130 patients assigned to masitinib 4.5 mg/kg/day were alive at …
TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint reported that bedside 64 mT portable MRI scans from ECMO patients could support brain-volume analysis, with segmented volumes broadly comparable to conventional MRI and low-field MRI scans without ECMO equipment. Key Findings 30 ECMO scans: The volumetric pipeline analyzed T2-weighted portable MRI scans from 30 patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Scientific Reports reported that NeXtSwin-X, a dual-branch AI model combining ConvNeXt and Swin Transformer features, achieved strong brain tumor classification performance across eight public MRI and CT datasets after only 10 training epochs. Key Findings Eight imaging datasets: The model was evaluated on eight public brain tumor MRI and CT …
TL;DR: A 2026 electroencephalography (EEG) study in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience found that observers’ empathy-for-pain ratings and physiological coupling stayed similar whether they watched another person receive painful stimulation through a live video call or a prerecorded video, although live interaction produced an earlier frontal theta brain response. Key Findings 35 observers tested: Researchers …
TL;DR: A 2026 rat study in Hippocampus found that the dentate gyrus (DG), a hippocampal memory region, gained about 385,000 granule neurons from 2 to 18 months of age even though older development-born neurons were also being lost. Key Findings 385,000-cell net gain: Total DG granule neuron counts increased by about 385,000 cells from 2 …
