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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that soluble CD27 (sCD27), a T-cell activation marker, was elevated in a subgroup of patients with severe psychiatric disorders and was more common when autoimmune disease or abnormal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) inflammation…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health linked better sleep quality before influenza vaccination and earlier chronotype to stronger immune-response markers in 108 adults. Key Findings Vaccination cohort: Researchers studied sleep, vaccinati…
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TL;DR: A 2026 scoping review in Nature and Science of Sleep found that sleep bruxism and gastroesophageal reflux disease were positively associated across 7 adult human studies, but the evidence remains too heterogeneous to prove causality. Key Findings 174 re…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint posted to medRxiv found that intermittent theta-burst transcranial temporal interference stimulation (iTBS-tTIS), a noninvasive electrical method aimed at the right putamen, lowered left-sided Parkinson’s motor scores during stimulation…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that older adults with Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)-defined mild cognitive impairment had less coordinated pulse-wave responses during a cognitive challenge than cognitively intact older adults. Key Findings Communi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Molecular Psychiatry ENIGMA mega-analysis found that medication status in bipolar disorder was linked to subtle differences in subcortical brain volume, with antiepileptic and antipsychotic exposure most consistently tied to smaller hippocampal a…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in Nature and Science of Sleep linked second-trimester sleep disturbance, measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), to depressive symptoms, vomiting, diet quality, and several birth-outcome patterns in 2,210 p…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Advanced Science found that flexible polyimide brain-implant probes produced lower long-term tissue reactivity than stiff silicon electrodes, while thinner probe designs and skull-detached mounting mattered less than the implant material…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Clinical Case Reports described persistent genital arousal disorder in a woman in her 30s, with symptom improvement after combined risperidone, sodium valproate, fluoxetine, short-term clonazepam, relaxation work, and cognitive behaviora…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv used electroencephalography (EEG), a scalp electrical-activity recording method, and electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings to test whether brain-heart interplay, meaning coupling between brain-network organization and cardiac aut…
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