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TL;DR: A 2026 study in The British Journal of Psychiatry found that psychiatrists described parental profession as shaping psychiatry career choice mainly through role modeling, family values, autonomy, guidance, and lived experience with mental health. Key Fi…
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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…
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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 pa…
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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 Migr…
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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 Fin…
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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 Finding…
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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 prescript…
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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 reinforce…
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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 w…
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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, s…
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