EXPLORE THE SCIENCE
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…
Read article
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…
Read article
TL;DR: A 2026 review in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews found that chronic primary pain studies most consistently linked higher pain sensitivity with lower mean arterial pressure, higher cortisol, higher heart rate during recovery, and lower parasympathet…
Read article
TL;DR: A 2026 randomized study in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that coherent breathing, a slow 6-breaths-per-minute breathing routine, improved several recovery markers in highly trained 400-meter athletes under repeated race stress…
Read article