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TL;DR: A 2025 randomized trial in Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care found that a self-help book based on cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), a structured non-drug insomnia treatment, reduced daily hypnotic sleep-medication use and anxi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience argues that catatonia, a syndrome of freezing, mutism, and abnormal movement, may involve underweighted limbic-system circuitry linking emotional regulation with motor…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found unexpected bilingualism in 38.7% of autistic children aged 2-6, about 4.4 times the rate in typically developing peers, with caregivers reporting screen media as the usual source. Key…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint electrophysiology study in medRxiv found that the Hurst exponent and gamma oscillations tracked different aspects of excitation-inhibition balance, while human EEG data suggested two autism neurosubtypes with opposing Hurst-gamma profile…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Psychological Medicine found that stopping maintenance antidepressants did not meaningfully change facial emotion recognition over 12 or 52 weeks in adults with recurrent depression who were currently well. Key Findings Trial sample: The…
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TL;DR: A 2026 BJPsych Open study found clinically significant anxiety in about 18% of non-demented ALS patients for state anxiety and 14% for trait anxiety, with anxiety scores driven mainly by cognitive-affective depression symptoms rather than motor severity…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Nature Mental Health describes an AI system that scans routine electronic health records (EHRs) and combines early-life visits, prescriptions, and comorbidities into a risk flag for ADHD evaluation before formal diagnosis. Key Findings A…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that hospital stakeholders saw a need for CARES, a Comprehensive Addiction Risk Evaluation System combining genetic and behavioral/environmental risk information, but warned that provider burden, substance-use stigma, and w…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint reported that ventral capsule deep brain stimulation (DBS), an implanted brain-stimulation treatment, reduced severe treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms by 22 Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that serum hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels, a blood measure tied to brain signaling and inflammation biology, were about 7.7-fold lower in drug-naive major depressive disorder patients than in matched controls. Key Findings 1…
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