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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Psychological Medicine found that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a weak electrical brain-stimulation method, affected empathy differently depending on whether researchers targeted the right temporoparietal junction or th…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America found that seeing a video tied to the sound source, such as motion from a train, drum, keyboard, bird, or canoe paddle, made faint sounds easier to detect through noise. Closing the eyes r…
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TL;DR: A 2026 electroencephalography (EEG) study in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience found that observers’ empathy-for-pain ratings and physiological coupling stayed similar whether they watched another person receive painful stimulation through…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment argued that electroacupuncture (EA), acupuncture delivered with small electrical stimulation, has depression-related mechanism evidence, but clinical trials need biomarker-guided patient groups, st…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint in medRxiv used electroencephalography (EEG), a scalp electrical-activity recording method, and electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings to test whether brain-heart interplay, meaning coupling between brain-network organization and cardiac aut…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience found that lower frontal midline theta, an EEG marker of cognitive-control engagement, partly explained why young adults with higher negative emotionality performed worse on a Go/No-Go inhi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Journal of Medical Case Reports described a 71-year-old breast-cancer survivor whose Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a cognitive screening test, increased from 16 to 20 and whose 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), a depre…
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TL;DR: A 2026 case study in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports described a 36-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia and focal epilepsy whose psychosis improved after slow clozapine titration, without worsening seizure frequency or seve…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in The Journal of Neuroscience found that adults with ADHD showed more sleep-like brain waves, known as slow waves, while awake, and those brief local sleep states helped explain lapses in attention and vigilance. Key Findings 32 ADHD adult…
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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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