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TL;DR: A headband sensor picked up brief bursts of force inside the head during sleep in all 45 people tested. People with neurodegenerative diseases had fewer bursts per minute than healthy volunteers, in an early, not yet peer-reviewed study. Key Findings A…
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TL;DR: During Parkinson’s surgery, 19 people played a game where they accepted or rejected money splits. Dopamine-like neurons deep in their brains fired more when an offer beat what the person expected, and this signal was stronger when the offer seemed to co…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv review found that mental-health AI agents are moving quickly toward large-language-model chatbots, but most systems still rely on text self-report, narrow depression/anxiety/suicide use cases, and offline tests rather than prospective cli…
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