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DepressionJuly 17, 2026

Transcriptomic Aging Was Accelerated in Major Depression and Linked to Right Insula Changes

TL;DR: A 2026 case-control study in Psychological Medicine linked major depressive disorder to faster blood-based transcriptomic aging and found that right-insula brain changes partly explained the depression association. Key Findings Transcriptomic aging was…

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Health & WellnessJuly 10, 2026

Right Insula-Putamen Brain Network Linked to Somatic Symptoms

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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Transcriptomic Aging Was Accelerated in Major Depression and Linked to Right Insula Changes

Right Insula-Putamen Brain Network Linked to Somatic Symptoms

The findings. The context. The caveats.