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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: Rese…
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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…
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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…
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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 me…
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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…
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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…
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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 e…
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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…
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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 ne…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Critical Care Explorations described a 45-year-old woman whose extended-release carbamazepine and venlafaxine overdose led to cardiac arrest, delayed serotonin syndrome, rebounding carbamazepine levels, bowel ischemia, and right hemicole…
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