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A 2026 medRxiv preprint involving 44 people with chronic post-stroke aphasia found reduced performance on nonverbal false-belief tasks in 23% of participants on the Reality-Unknown task and …
Read articleA 2026 juvenile rat study found that inactivating the ventral pallidum or stimulating nucleus accumbens GABA terminals in the ventral pallidum reduced social play behavior in both sexes, poi…
Read articleA 2026 review argues that neurovascular-unit dysfunction may precede amyloid-beta generation in Alzheimer’s disease and then synergize with amyloid deposition, tau pathology, inflammation, a…
Read articleA 2026 fMRI study of 45 adults with strong pro- or anti-refugee stances found that people made more socially mindful choices for ingroup partners than for outgroup or unclassified partners, …
Read articleA 2026 mechanistic study involving 28 healthy adults found that a single 25 mg psilocybin session changed acute brain entropy, psychological insight, well-being, cognitive flexibility, and s…
Read articleA 2026 medRxiv preprint found that older adults with mild-cognitive-impairment-level MoCA-J scores showed distinct resting facial action-unit patterns: AU10 upper lip raiser, AU23 lip tighte…
Read articleA 2026 EEG-ECG preprint reported that beta efficiency-sympathetic coupling differed across healthy young adults, healthy older adults, and Parkinson’s disease patients, p = 0.0032, while gam…
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