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TL;DR: A 2026 narrative review in International Journal of General Medicine argued that apathy in Alzheimer’s disease is tied to damage across motivation circuits, including the anterior cingulate cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, striatum, locus coeruleus, and la…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in the International Journal of General Medicine found that rapid ASPECTS scoring on non-contrast CT and CT perfusion core-infarct volume predicted 90-day outcomes similarly in 82 acute ischemic stroke patients treated with endovascular the…
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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 study in BMC Psychiatry found that structural MRI of the cerebellum separated first-episode bipolar depression from unipolar depression with 76.3% exploratory model accuracy, mainly because several cerebellar gray-matter regions were smaller in b…
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TL;DR: A 2022 study in Nature Communications used non-contrast 3D T2-FLAIR MRI, a scan that suppresses ordinary cerebrospinal-fluid brightness, to map possible brain-border drainage routes toward cervical lymph nodes, but FLAIR brightness alone does not prove…
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AI Brain Biomarkers Shift When Models Pick Different Features TL;DR: Across more than 12,000 participants and 13 outcomes, overlooked brain-connectivity features predicted cognition and psychiatric traits nearly as well as top-ranked features, but pointed to d…
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Long-term practitioners of Orgasmic Meditation (OM) show distinct patterns of reduced brain metabolism compared to non-meditators, with significant differences in various brain regions involved in cognition, attention, and emotional regulation. Highlights: Red…
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This study reveals significant differences in brain morphology between neurotypical young adults identified as White or African American, highlighting the impact of racial identity on brain structure. Highlights: Brain Volume Differences: Significant volumetri…
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Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD) patients exhibit widespread gray matter atrophy, with specific brain volume deficits associated with crack-cocaine use and relapse outcomes. Highlights: Widespread Gray Matter Atrophy: CUD patients show significant gray matter volume…
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The study found that patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) exhibit distinct structural brain alterations, including cortical thickening and thinning in specific regions, which fit into existing neurocircuitry models of the disorder. Highlights: Cortical…
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