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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint used functional MRI (fMRI) and complex harmonics decomposition to study mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in 80 people with major depressive disorder, reporting post-treatment changes in whole-brain manifolds during rumination.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Archives of Women’s Mental Health linked prenatal active tobacco smoking with higher odds of postpartum depression, while secondhand smoke and electronic nicotine-product estimates were not statistically cle…
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TL;DR: A 2026 case-control study in Psychological Medicine linked major depressive disorder to faster blood-based transcriptomic aging and found that right-insula brain changes partly explained the depression association. Key Findings Transcriptomic aging was…
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TL;DR: Portable electroencephalography (EEG) recordings tracked perinatal anxiety most consistently in a preliminary medRxiv preprint, with delta power carrying the clearest longitudinal marker and alpha power appearing in visit-specific anxiety analyses. Key…
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TL;DR: A 2026 longitudinal study in Journal of Korean Medical Science found that self-reported phobic anxiety on the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised helped predict 2-month depression treatment response even when baseline clinician-rated depression and anxiety sco…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in eNeuro used intracranial electroencephalography (EEG), a recording method for brain electrical activity, during deep brain stimulation surgery and found that Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor patients with elevated depression symp…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in JMIR mHealth and uHealth found that a 7-session CBT-based online self-help group reduced depression symptoms, with the average Beck Depression Inventory-II score moving from the moderate range to the mild range after the progr…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study protocol in PLOS One describes a planned longitudinal study that will track academic stress, depressive symptoms, diet, sleep-related wearable measures, salivary cortisol, and other health indicators across a university semester, but it doe…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in PLOS One found that people with post COVID-19 condition reported worse quality of life, fatigue, sleep, psychological wellbeing, and subjective cognition than COVID-19 survivors without the condition, while many objective…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in Brain Medicine found mixed randomized-trial evidence for creatine monohydrate as an add-on depression treatment: 2 of 5 trials showed symptom benefits, while 3 did not find a clear advantage. Key Findings Five randomized trials were rev…
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