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TL;DR: Two research teams used different methods to map the brain’s wiring in the same 1,065 young adults, then checked for differences between men and women. They almost always agreed on the fiber-quality measures, clashing just once in 343 comparisons, but d…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint linked higher blood inflammatory markers with diffusion MRI signs of altered white-matter microstructure in 457 dementia-free middle-aged and older adults, especially for a combined cytokine score and orientation dispersion index…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint linked pre-surgery diffusion MRI markers in Parkinson’s disease to 6-month changes in impulsive-compulsive behaviour after subthalamic deep brain stimulation. Key Findings Small DBS cohort: Researchers followed 35 Parkinson’s dis…
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TL;DR: A 2025 Molecular Psychiatry study of more than 36,000 people found that higher autism polygenic risk was associated with lower MRI-derived neurite density, a measure of neural-fiber packing, across cortex and white matter in both children and adults. Ke…
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