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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in Journal of Medical Internet Research tested the web-based Health Check-Up for Expectant Moms program in 176 pregnant women at risk for substance use or sexually transmitted infection risk, but reductions in alcohol, cannabis,…
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TL;DR: Major depressive disorder and vitiligo may share immune-inflammatory gene signatures. In PLOS One in 2026, the analysis frames MAPK14 as a preliminary candidate marker that still needs clinical and laboratory validation. Key Findings Two public disease…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in Annals of Medicine argues that circadian rhythm disruption in major depressive disorder (MDD) reaches beyond poor sleep, linking clock-gene variation, sleep-wake timing, stress-hormone rhythms, melatonin signaling, and chronotherapy tar…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Developmental Psychology randomized-trial follow-up found that children assigned to high-quality foster care after severe early deprivation had better adaptive functioning at age 18, especially in communication and socialization, than children wh…
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TL;DR: A 2025 medRxiv fMRI preprint linked higher apathy in both traumatic brain injury (TBI) and control groups to greater effort discounting, while TBI-related apathy was also associated with less exploratory decision-making and weaker neural encoding of dif…
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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: A 2026 randomized trial in Molecular Autism found that a culturally adapted parent-implemented social communication program was linked to language, social-functioning, parent self-efficacy, and stress gains in Chinese-speaking autistic preschoolers, wit…
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TL;DR: A 2026 meta-analysis in PLOS One found clinically important sleep problems in refugee and asylum-seeking populations, with pooled sleep-adversity prevalence of 43.2% in adults and 36.4% in children and adolescents. Key Findings 66 studies reviewed: The…
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