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A 2026 Nature Neuroscience study from the Igarashi lab proposes a circuit-level answer for why the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) is the first cortical region to falter in Alzheimer’s: dopa…
Read articleDementia rates in the US, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, France, and several other high-income countries have been falling for decades, despite population aging. The standard explanation — improve…
Read articleA human, mouse, and zebrafish study linked long-term chlorpyrifos exposure to Parkinson’s disease risk, with the strongest exposure-duration estimate reaching OR 2.74 for workplace proximity…
Read articleA 40-rat early-life visceral stress study found auditory pathway sensitization without hearing-threshold loss: neonatal colorectal distension produced IBS-like visceral hypersensitivity, nor…
Read articleA 2026 review in the Japanese Journal of Radiology argued that amyloid PET has moved from an optional Alzheimer’s disease biomarker to a practical eligibility gate for anti-amyloid antibody …
Read articleA 2026 systematic review argues that catatonia should be read as a limbic-cortical circuit syndrome, with motor shutdown tied to brain systems for threat, salience, motivation, and emotional…
Read articleA 2026 iScience study found that both humans and rats could report whether their own 2-second timing responses were small-error or large-error trials, but rats were more accurate on test cho…
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