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TL;DR: A 2026 network meta-analysis in International Clinical Psychopharmacology found that lurasidone and xanomeline-trospium improved global cognitive scores in schizophrenia-spectrum randomized trials, while quetiapine and cariprazine ranked best for attent…
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TL;DR: A 2024 study in Sociological Forum found that identity-politics measures statistically explained much of the link between progressive ideology and lower self-reported well-being in the 2021 Baylor Religion Survey. Key Findings Well-being gap: Progressiv…
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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 2025 study in Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy linked higher Dark Triad traits, a personality cluster covering psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism, with more aggressive relationship expectations and greater self-reported sexual coercion in a…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in eLife found that prior cocaine self-administration disrupted how rat orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a frontal brain region involved in task structure and flexible behavior, encoded hidden states in an odor-sequence task. Key Findings 3,881…
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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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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology found that adulthood stressor severity was linked to higher hair cortisol in a longitudinal sample, while early-life stress, recent stress, daily phone-based stress reports, and the cortisol/DHEA ra…
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TL;DR: A 2026 nationwide study in Journal of Korean Medical Science found that among South Korean children and adolescents with intellectual disability, diagnosed ADHD increased from 30.23% in 2012 to 41.77% in 2021, while diagnosed depression increased from 1…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in Evolution and Human Behavior found that both men and women reported the strongest romantic jealousy when a partner actively gave most of a money allocation to an opposite-sex rival. Key Findings Partner investment was the strongest trigg…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Scientific Reports study of 6,805 English-language media reports found that psychedelic-treatment coverage for depression and PTSD used more positive tone than antidepressant coverage, while antidepressant coverage used more risk and negative-emo…
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