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TL;DR: A 2026 Sex Roles study using NLSY97 data found that the gender friendship gap in best-friend closeness was driven mainly by white men, while Black men, Latino men, and women across groups reported more similar closeness after controls. Key Findings NLSY…
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TL;DR: A 2026 longitudinal analysis in the Journal of Affective Disorders tracked 635 older adults with new-onset loneliness and found that cognitive decline matched controls before loneliness began, then accelerated after onset, especially when loneliness per…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Human Brain Mapping study combined PET receptor imaging with speech functional MRI, or fMRI, in healthy adults and found that GABA signaling and striatal dopamine release interacted with brain activity during human speech control. Key Findings PE…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint on medRxiv using the Harvard Biomarkers Study found that 43% of Parkinson’s disease patients had depression, anxiety, sleep apnea, or restless legs syndrome, compared with 21% of controls. Key Findings 1,224-person cohort: Researchers an…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Cell Reports used electroencephalography (EEG), a brain-wave recording method, in 92 nappers to identify four mental states across wakefulness, sleep onset, and light sleep, including a bizarre dream-like state with reduced frontal-occip…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized clinical trial in JAMA Network Open found that one supervised 30 mg/70 kg psilocybin dose plus cognitive behavioral therapy produced 40.5% six-month smoking abstinence versus 10.0% with a nicotine patch plus the same therapy. Key Findi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in the International Journal of Transgender Health found that transgender respondents in the 2020 EU LGBTI Survey II reported more discrimination and violence than cisgender lesbian, gay, and bisexual respondents across 30 European countrie…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial in PLOS One found that 5 MIDI-assisted group music therapy sessions during psychiatric hospitalization reduced Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) stress scores more than 1 session, while anxiety, depression, life satisf…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized trial analysis in European Journal of Psychotraumatology found that COPE-A, an integrated exposure-based therapy for youth with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorder (SUD), reduced PTSD symptoms more than supp…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Communications Psychology analyzed 1,687 dream reports and 1,679 waking reports, finding that dreams were more visual, spatial, social, bizarre, and emotionally negative than waking experiences. Key Findings 3,366 reports analyzed: the m…
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