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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Journal of Medical Internet Research found that care robots showed a low-certainty reduction in neuropsychiatric symptoms, but six other pooled outcome domains did not reach statistical significance. Key Fin…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Nature Communications found that neuropsychiatric disorder risk did not map onto cognition as one general trait. Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, autism, and Alzheimer’s disease showed different genetic links with reaction time, fl…
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TL;DR: A 2026 rat study in Brain Structure and Function found that ventral pallidum activity supports juvenile social play, while activating inhibitory nucleus accumbens inputs to the ventral pallidum reduced play behavior in both male and female rats. Key Fin…
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TL;DR: A 2026 nationwide study in Journal of Korean Medical Science found that among South Korean children and adolescents with intellectual disability, diagnosed ADHD increased from 30.23% in 2012 to 41.77% in 2021, while diagnosed depression increased from 1…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv found that a parent-cocreated sensory-reactivity outcome set captured anxiety, mood, sleep, fatigue, cognition, and peer-relationship changes during bumetanide treatment in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental diso…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology linked prenatal PM2.5 and non-freeway NOx exposure with newborn amino-acid metabolism pathways that also tracked autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis before age 5. Key Findings…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in Scientific Reports found that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom screening was linked to extremely severe chronic pain in 958 adults at Japanese pain centers, while autism spectrum disorder (ASD) scre…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cohort study in BJPsych Open found that childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) difficulties predicted poorer young-adult outcomes, but rare copy number variants (CNVs), which are deleted or du…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Communications Biology transcriptomic analysis identified three molecular subtypes of autism spectrum disorder, each linked to a distinct phenotypic profile and biological pathway pattern. Key Findings Three molecular subtypes emerged from transc…
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Nitric Oxide’s Hidden Link to Autism Behavior TL;DR: A chemical messenger called nitric oxide triggers protein damage that sends the mTOR pathway into overdrive in autism-related mouse models, driving social deficits and repetitive behaviors—and blocking this…
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