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TL;DR: A 2026 cellular neuroscience study in iScience found that GPR3, a constitutively active G-protein-coupled receptor, behaved like an immediate-early gene and helped connect CREB signaling to presynaptic maturation during neuronal differentiation. Key Fin…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in iScience found that 1 hour of small-space confinement suppressed male courtship in Drosophila, and dopamine signaling into the mushroom body was needed to keep that suppression going after the stress ended. Key Findings 1-hour stress mod…
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TL;DR: A 2026 iScience study recorded human substantia nigra neurons during Parkinson’s surgery and found that putative dopamine-neuron firing was higher after a prior reward, while the next response was modestly faster. Key Findings Direct human recordings: R…
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TL;DR: A 2026 iScience study used simultaneous EEG-fMRI from 24 healthy adults to build reference maps for slow-wave events (SWEs), brief sleep-related brain waves, and proposed SloCAD as a way to measure how an individual brain deviates from healthy slow-wave…
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TL;DR: A 2026 qualitative study in iScience found that a 10-week Arts on Prescription program helped unemployed young adults with anxiety, depression, or stress report better mood, stronger routines, and less isolation, but some activities also caused stress,…
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TL;DR: A 2026 mouse study in iScience found that blocking Itch, an E3 ubiquitin ligase involved in protein tagging, improved several memory-test readouts in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model and reduced neuronal apoptosis, including when researchers used the…
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TL;DR: A 2026 iScience study found that after 1 hour of training, adults could use a new audio cue for depth judgments, but only about half combined it with a familiar visual cue well enough to improve perceptual precision. Key Findings A total of 78 adults co…
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TL;DR: A 2026 iScience study found that both humans and rats could report their own timing errors in a 2-second task, but rats made more accurate error-based choices than humans. Key Findings Matched timing task: Researchers compared 34 adults with 16 male Spr…
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