TL;DR: A 2026 study in Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports found 70 known Australian fatal poisonings involving new psychoactive stimulants and hallucinogens (NPSH), a category of newer stimulant- or hallucinogen-like drugs that often appeared alongside other psychoactive substances. Key Findings Researchers identified 70 fatal drug-toxicity cases in Australia from 2000 to 2025 where NPSH were …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience used task-based functional MRI (fMRI), a brain-scan method that tracks blood-oxygen changes during a task, to show that misophonia and hyperacusis had partly different brain connectivity patterns during unpleasant sound processing. Key Findings 91 young adults were analyzed after 1 participant was excluded for excessive …
TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint enrolled 177 adults with migraine in a 30-day smartphone study and found that daily cognition and symptom check-ins were feasible, with 3,688 completed assessments and higher baseline burden in chronic migraine. Key Findings Migraine cohort: The MIND study followed 177 adults with migraine using once-daily smartphone surveys and brief mobile …
TL;DR: A 2026 Critical Care Explorations paper described a 17-year-old girl whose intentional lisdexamfetamine overdose was followed by delayed severe heart failure, with left ventricular ejection fraction falling below 20% before recovery over months. Key Findings Delayed cardiac collapse: The patient first appeared stable after treatment, then worsened again about 24 hours after ingestion. Severe …
TL;DR: A 2025 study in The Journal of General Psychology found that introductory psychology textbooks showed modest improvement from 2018 to 2023, but several classic myths and contested topics were still presented in biased or oversimplified ways. Key Findings Researchers rated coverage of 11 textbook topics that psychology professors had flagged as commonly distorted or …
TL;DR: A 2026 nationwide study in PLOS One found that adults age 40 and older in Iceland often had psychiatric diagnoses and psychotropic medication fills, with 20.8% receiving a diagnosis in the prior year and 34.2% filling at least one psychotropic prescription. Key Findings Nationwide cohort: Researchers analyzed registry data from 80,733 Icelanders age 40 …
TL;DR: A network model in Communications Physics (2026) found that Hebbian learning, the familiar “fire together, wire together” rule, trapped activity in old routes, while anti-Hebbian weakening helped activity reach new areas. Key Findings Positive reinforcement trapped activity: when successful activation made the same link more likely to be used again, activity tended to circle …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Stigma and Health found that women who lost 15% of body weight with GLP-1 receptor agonists, medications such as semaglutide that mimic a metabolic hormone involved in appetite and glucose signaling, were judged more harshly than women who lost the same amount through diet and exercise. Key Findings Medication-assisted loss …
TL;DR: A 2026 service-mapping study in BJPsych Bulletin found that community forensic mental health services (CFMHS), specialist teams for people with mental disorder and serious risk histories, still vary widely across England in structure, referral access, staffing, and crisis coverage. Key Findings 32 services responded: Researchers received data from 32 CFMHS after sending Freedom of …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Social Psychology found that a female professor and a male professor produced almost identical obedience in a modern Milgram-style replication, suggesting professional authority mattered more than the authority figure’s gender. Key Findings Authority gender: 88% of participants obeyed every instruction from a female professor, versus 90% with a male professor. …
