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A 2026 rat study found that foot-shock stress transiently reduced food-cue approach during the first 2 conditioned-stimulus trials (t = 2.807; P < 0.05), and inhibiting the nucleus of the so…
Read articleA 35-person EEG study found that pain empathy did not collapse when live two-way video was replaced by prerecorded viewing: observer-target pain-rating correlations were nearly identical dur…
Read articleA 97-dyad adolescent fMRI study found that trauma-exposed youth with high posttraumatic stress symptoms did not use parent-observed safety learning in the usual way: their arousal rose to a …
Read articleA 2026 ENIGMA-OCD preprint tested a transformer model on resting-state fMRI from 1,706 participants and reached AUROC = 0.653 ± 0.039 for OCD classification.1 The more important result was t…
Read articleA 2026 neuroscience review argues that chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity should not be treated as a purely peripheral nerve problem: CIPN affects 70-90% of patients during chemot…
Read articleA 2026 multicenter Italian cohort followed 216 early Parkinson’s disease patients for 24 months after levodopa initiation and found sex/gender differences in non-motor symptom burden.1 Women…
Read articleA 2025 Nature Communications study found that Alzheimer’s-like mice lost locus coeruleus noradrenergic axons in the olfactory bulb early: 14% loss by 2 months, 27% by 3 months, and 33% by 6 …
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