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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Neuron from Weill Cornell used mouse melanoma models to find that sympathetic nerves growing into tumors release norepinephrine, which activates alpha adrenergic receptors on tumor-associated macrophages and reduces their pro-tumor numbe…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint reported that closed-loop subgaleal intersectional short-pulse stimulation reduced seizure duration and rapidly lowered seizure incidence in a small first-in-human treatment-resistant epilepsy study. Key Findings Subgaleal implan…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv used natural language processing (NLP) on Scottish CT and MRI reports to subtype stroke at scale, linking lobar intracerebral hemorrhage to higher later dementia risk and cortical ischemic stroke to higher early myocardial inf…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv reported that an interpretable CatBoost machine-learning model predicted stroke-associated pneumonia after acute ischemic stroke bridging therapy with a test-set AUC of 0.932, with 7-day stroke severity and early inflammatory…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in BJGP Open found no clear cohort-level increase in major bleeding outcomes when selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) were used with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), but the self-controlled analysis still pointed to extra cau…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience found that stroke and traumatic brain injury populations showed consistent social cognition alterations across domains, while insula, cingulate cortex, middle frontal gyrus, and…
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TL;DR: A 2026 uncontrolled pilot study in BJPsych Open found that SMART, a personalized text-message program for metabolic health in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, improved patient activation, diabetes self-management confidence, health literacy…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in Nature mapped more than 76,000 single-neuron projections from the orofacial motor cortex (OMC) and found that Alston’s singing mouse, which produces audible song, has 2.8-fold higher OMC connectivity to an auditory cortical region…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv reported that serum myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) protein was higher in multiple sclerosis than controls and higher during clinical relapse than remission. Key Findings 20.5 pg/ml higher: Serum MOG protein was high…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in PNAS from Oregon Health & Science University and Anhui University used optogenetics in mice to map a specific serotonin-producing brain circuit that runs straight to the auditory system, showed that activating this circuit produced tinni…
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