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TL;DR: A 2026 rat study in Psychopharmacology found that THC exposure during late adolescence left adult animals with elevated anxiety-like behavior and impaired object-recognition and spatial-memory performance after a drug-free recovery period. Key Findings…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in Translational Psychiatry found that depression brain-stimulation studies repeatedly linked treatment response to subcallosal cingulate connectivity, but inconsistent methods still limit its use as a treatment-selection biomar…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in The British Journal of Psychiatry linked schizophrenia to a multisystem advanced-aging phenotype, including older-appearing brain scans, shorter telomeres, inflammation, and higher dementia risk. Key Findings 170 studies incl…
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TL;DR: A 2026 meta-analysis in Psychological Medicine found postpartum depression (PPD) brain-activity differences across default-mode, limbic, and sensorimotor regions, with spatial overlap in serotonin, dopamine, and vesicular acetylcholine transporter maps.…
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TL;DR: Across 4,000+ people, the relationship between brain activity and cognitive control flipped direction depending on whether researchers compared people to each other or tracked the same person over time. The finding is called nonergodicity — and it means…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in BMC Psychiatry found 441 primary MRI and electroencephalogram (EEG), a scalp recording of brain electrical activity, mental-health biomarker studies, but most were small, cross-sectional, and concentrated in depression, making routine c…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized-trial preprint in medRxiv reported that 10 minutes of daily digital meditation reduced anxiety and mind wandering, with the largest gains in people who started with higher symptom burden. Key Findings Ten daily minutes reduced anxiety:…
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TL;DR: A 2025 systematic review in Translational Psychiatry found that substance use disorder was associated with recurring resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI), a scan of spontaneous brain-network communication, abnormalities in reward and self-control circ…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint on schizophrenia reported that illness insight tracked with resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) flexibility, a measure of how dynamically brain regions reconfigure their connectivity, and that these brain-dynamics patterns aligne…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in the Journal of Eating Disorders found that higher sensation seeking, a personality trait involving pursuit of novel or intense experiences, was linked to more restraint and overeating in 400 German adolescents, with stronger disordered-e…
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