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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health linked composite inflammatory biomarkers during pregnancy and postpartum with postpartum anxiety symptoms, but the strongest associations ran in the unexpected direction of lower anxiety risk at highe…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health found that whole-body hyperthermia in adults with major depressive disorder triggered a 30-minute whole-blood RNA-seq response dominated by heat-shock genes and immune pathways, including IL-6 product…
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TL;DR: A 2026 MIDUS mediation study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health found that social asymmetry was associated with greater chronic disease burden, while chronic disease burden mediated links between social asymmetry and episodic memory and executive f…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional metabolomics study in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health found that serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) metabolite signatures differed in knee osteoarthritis and related to pain, fatigue, sleep, and pressure sensitivity, while C…
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TL;DR: A 2026 biomarker analysis in Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health across antidepressant trials found that kynurenine pathway metabolites were elevated in inflammatory depression compared with non-inflammatory depression and healthy controls, while omega…
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