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The textbook story of social anxiety disorder is broken amygdala-prefrontal regulation — an overactive threat system the prefrontal cortex can’t calm down. A 2026 effective-connectivity stud…
Read articleA 2026 meta-analysis of 32 randomized trials involving 2,669 participants found that ultrasound-guided acupotomy reduced chronic spinal musculoskeletal pain, with pain intensity improving by…
Read articleA 53-study resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) meta-analysis found substance use disorder (SUD) linked to altered connectivity across prefrontal, striatal, thalamic, c…
Read articleA 2026 adolescent depression study used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to test whether childhood trauma leaves a measurable network signature in the depressed teen brain…
Read articleA 2026 Scottish health-system preprint used natural language processing of CT and MRI reports to subtype stroke and found that lobar intracerebral hemorrhage carried a higher dementia risk b…
Read articleA 2026 multi-cohort fMRI study found that a signal often treated as physiological noise tracked nicotine dependence, cue-induced craving, abstinence, and stimulant effects.1 During cigarette…
Read articleA 327-person eye-tracking study found that anxiety disorders carried a hyper-scanning and hyper-pursuit signature, separating anxiety patients from healthy controls with AUC 0.82.1 The same …
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