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TL;DR: A 2026 meta-analysis in BMC Psychiatry found a moderate cross-sectional association between body dysmorphic disorder symptoms and perfectionism across 34 studies and 13,107 participants. Key Findings 34-study meta-analysis: The review pooled 34 studies…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in BMC Psychiatry reported that olanzapine produced a numerically higher body mass index gain in anorexia nervosa trials, but the pooled randomized evidence remained small, heterogeneous, and not statistically…
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TL;DR: A 2026 qualitative study in BMC Psychiatry found that children interviewed 1 month after pediatric intensive care unit discharge described post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms tied to pain, sleep disruption, frightening procedures, sensory ove…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in BMC Psychiatry used Taiwan insurance records to find that dementia in people with schizophrenia was tied more strongly to age and linked medical comorbidities than to antipsychotic exposure after multivariable adjustment. Key Findings 14…
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TL;DR: A 2026 sham-controlled study in BMC Psychiatry found that one 15-minute session of 1.5 mA anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex did not improve visuospatial or verbal working memory in clinic…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in BMC Psychiatry found that structural MRI of the cerebellum separated first-episode bipolar depression from unipolar depression with 76.3% exploratory model accuracy, mainly because several cerebellar gray-matter regions were smaller in b…
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TL;DR: A 2026 BMC Psychiatry study found that antipsychotic dose was not associated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a brief cognitive screening test, in clinically stable schizophrenia patients under 40, while higher symptom scores and longer illnes…
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TL;DR: A 2026 randomized single-blind trial in BMC Psychiatry found that a one-day lithium carbonate loading dose plus quetiapine reduced acute manic symptoms in bipolar I disorder more than standard slow-titration lithium plus quetiapine over 14 days. Key Fin…
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