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TL;DR: In rats stressed with mild foot shocks, REM sleep, the dream stage, dropped. The insomnia drug suvorexant and two related experimental drugs partly brought it back, and suvorexant also helped the rats fall asleep faster, but this was a small study in 9…
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TL;DR: Across 55 trials in low- and middle-income countries (5,041 adults), people who got therapy had much lower PTSD symptoms than people on a wait-list or other comparison. The evidence was very low certainty because many trials were weakly run. Key Finding…
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TL;DR: A therapy app did not reduce depression scores more than a look-alike education app in a trial of adults with past concussions. Insomnia scores improved more with the therapy app, but only 42 of 113 participants completed the main 12-week check-in. Key…
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TL;DR: In a small German study of 24 refugee women with trauma symptoms, scores on three symptom questionnaires stayed flat during an 8-week wait, then dropped after 8 weekly dance movement therapy sessions. The group’s average PTSD checklist score slipped jus…
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TL;DR: A 2026 meta-analysis in PLOS One found clinically important sleep problems in refugee and asylum-seeking populations, with pooled sleep-adversity prevalence of 43.2% in adults and 36.4% in children and adolescents. Key Findings 66 studies reviewed: The…
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TL;DR: A 2026 fMRI study in Molecular Psychiatry linked abuse before age 13 to stronger hippocampal responses during non-conscious negative emotion processing, while abuse during adolescence was linked to stronger amygdala responses during conscious emotion vi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 pilot randomized trial in Psychological Services found that a 9-session social-function group for older veterans with PTSD was feasible and acceptable, with stronger relationship gains than a support group in romantic and family functioning. Key…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science linked serious physical injury to recurrent major depression and found that injury-related DNA methylation patterns differed by depression status, with oxytocin, GABA, and synaptic-plasticity pa…
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TL;DR: A 2026 preprint cohort analysis in medRxiv found that about 24.1% of the sample met the PCL-5 threshold for probable post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, while frequent uncensored video exposure was associated with higher PTSD symptom severity after…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Scientific Reports study of 6,805 English-language media reports found that psychedelic-treatment coverage for depression and PTSD used more positive tone than antidepressant coverage, while antidepressant coverage used more risk and negative-emo…
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