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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint used functional MRI (fMRI) and complex harmonics decomposition to study mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in 80 people with major depressive disorder, reporting post-treatment changes in whole-brain manifolds during rumination.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study published in BMC Medicine used lesion network mapping to identify a somatic-symptom brain network centered on the right insula and putamen, then linked atrophy inside that network to somatic symptom severity across 399 psychiatric patients.…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in Nature found that age-related gut microbiome changes impaired vagal gut-brain signaling and hippocampal memory encoding, while several interventions restored memory performance in aged or microbiome-aged mice. Key Findings Aged mic…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in European Journal of Neuroscience found that slow breathing sharpened fearful-face perception during inhalation but weakened it during exhalation, with magnetoencephalography showing brain-timing changes before the face appeared. Key Find…
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150 mg Caffeine Did Not Trigger Panic Disorder Anxiety TL;DR: A normal coffee-sized caffeine dose did not trigger a subjective anxiety surge in panic disorder, but it did make people more physiologically aroused, more avoidant, and more distracted by bodily se…
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