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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 preprint posted to medRxiv found that intermittent theta-burst transcranial temporal interference stimulation (iTBS-tTIS), a noninvasive electrical method aimed at the right putamen, lowered left-sided Parkinson’s motor scores during stimulation…
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TL;DR: A 2026 Human Brain Mapping study combined PET receptor imaging with speech functional MRI, or fMRI, in healthy adults and found that GABA signaling and striatal dopamine release interacted with brain activity during human speech control. Key Findings PE…
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