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Early Psychosis Vocational Recovery: 53.3% NEET in SEEearly Trial

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A 2026 SEEearly baseline report found that 53.3% of 184 young people with early schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis were not in employment, education, or training at study entry, even though 97.8% had at least a lower- or upper-secondary school-leaving qualification.1 Psychosis had already interrupted the bridge from school into training, college, or competitive work. Research Highlights NEET …

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ALS Entropy Analysis Finds 5-Month Signal Hidden by ALSFRS Scores

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A 2026 PRO-ACT analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) trial data found a signal that ordinary ALSFRS total-score slopes cannot even express: Shannon entropy trajectories diverged between pooled active and placebo arms, including a 5-month delay in peak Fine Motor distributional spread for active-arm patients.1 Research Highlights Entropy found an endpoint-level signal: Rodriguez analyzed 7,512 …

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Risperidone in Dementia Raised Stroke-Related Events 4.11x by Week 4

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A 2026 individual participant data meta-analysis of 1,721 dementia trial participants linked risperidone to cerebrovascular adverse events, HR 4.11 (95% CI 1.77 to 9.51), and major cardiovascular adverse events, HR 2.00 (95% CI 1.23 to 3.26).1 The timing signal is the practical warning: median first cerebrovascular event appeared at 4.3 weeks, and median first major …

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sCD27 Biomarker Flags Autoimmune Disease in Severe Psychiatric Disorders

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A 2026 immunopsychiatry cohort study found that soluble CD27 (sCD27), a marker of T-cell activation, was positive in cerebrospinal fluid in 23% of severe psychiatric patients selected for suspected immune involvement and in 88% of multiple sclerosis patients used as a positive-control group. In the psychiatric cohort, combined cerebrospinal fluid or blood sCD27 positivity was …

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Parkinson’s Speech Pauses Track Sentence Complexity and MoCA Scores

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A 2026 connected-speech study found that people with Parkinson’s disease produced more silent pauses than older controls while reading aloud: 2.185 vs. 1.595 mean pauses, while long sentences produced 2.676 pauses vs. 1.033 in short sentences.1 Within the Parkinson’s group, MoCA scores correlated with total pause count (rs = −0.502, p = 0.005). Research Highlights …

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Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Added 670,000 Rat Dentate Neurons

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A 2026 rat study estimated that adult hippocampal neurogenesis added 670,000 dentate gyrus granule neurons from 2 to 18 months of age, but the total dentate gyrus population grew by only 385,000 cells because older developmentally born neurons were also being lost.1 The result makes adult neurogenesis look numerically larger than the usual “tiny trickle” …

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