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TL;DR: Brain scans of 48 women with borderline personality disorder showed less gray matter in the insula and parts of the frontal lobe than in 54 women without it. Some of those frontal areas were more strongly in sync with other brain regions, and that synci…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that one session of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) reduced cigarette craving in adults with tobacco use disorder, and the people who responded had he…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint on medRxiv used multisite MRI data from 3,958 people with schizophrenia and 5,489 controls to map cortical network disruptions and identify two robust brain-structure subtypes. Key Findings 9,447 MRI participants: The analysis included 3…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience found that stroke and traumatic brain injury populations showed consistent social cognition alterations across domains, while insula, cingulate cortex, middle frontal gyrus, and…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Imaging Neuroscience functional MRI (fMRI) study found that emotional pictures were recalled better than neutral pictures, but amygdala and insula activity appeared tied mainly to arousal rather than whether memories were negative or positive. Ke…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience argues that catatonia, a syndrome of freezing, mutism, and abnormal movement, may involve underweighted limbic-system circuitry linking emotional regulation with motor…
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A new brain imaging study reveals deficits in key networks involved in social functioning among individuals with schizophrenia. The findings shed light on the underlying neural mechanisms that may contribute to impaired social skills in this psychiatric disord…
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