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TL;DR: Ambroxol, an old cough medicine, can boost a key brain enzyme in lab studies, but a review of 20 clinical reports found no proven benefit in Gaucher disease or GBA1-linked Parkinson’s. In a randomized trial of people with GBA1-linked Parkinson’s, ambrox…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in PLOS One found that ketogenic diet therapies were linked to more 50% seizure reductions in drug-resistant epilepsy, with clearer evidence in children and more uncertainty for near-complete seizure control, side effects, adher…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in Sports Medicine – Open found that esports gameplay can raise heart rate, stress physiology, and energy expenditure, but the overall metabolic demand generally stayed in the light-activity range. Key Findings 176 records scree…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in Future Science OA found early medication evidence for online behavioral addictions, but the 20 included studies were mostly small, male-heavy, and short-term. Key Findings Medication evidence stayed early: The review found sm…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in BMC Psychiatry reported that olanzapine produced a numerically higher body mass index gain in anorexia nervosa trials, but the pooled randomized evidence remained small, heterogeneous, and not statistically…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in Preventive Medicine Reports found limited but suggestive randomized-trial evidence that smoking-cessation medications can help Indigenous adults quit, especially when paired with supportive or culturally tailored care. Key Fi…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review in The Cerebellum found that deep brain stimulation (DBS) produced modest symptom improvement in selected cerebellar ataxia patients, with dentate nucleus stimulation most common in humans and interposed nucleus stimulation emer…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Neurological Sciences found that ketogenic diet (KD), a very-low-carbohydrate diet designed to raise ketone fuel use, looked feasible and generally safe as an add-on strategy in glioblastoma (GBM), but the s…
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TL;DR: A 2026 review in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews found that chronic primary pain studies most consistently linked higher pain sensitivity with lower mean arterial pressure, higher cortisol, higher heart rate during recovery, and lower parasympathet…
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TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in Acta Neuropsychiatrica found no clear evidence that parenteral clomipramine is better than oral clomipramine for depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder, with low or very low certainty across the main ra…
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