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ABCD: Childhood Poverty Raised Risk; Inhibitory Control Split Resilience

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A 2026 ABCD cohort preprint involving 10,112 youth found that childhood poverty strengthened the link between cumulative early-life adversity and later behavioral problems; among poverty-exposed youth, inhibitory-control fMRI profiles split children into higher-vulnerability and buffered pathways. Research Highlights Poverty steepened adversity risk: In 10,112 ABCD youth, childhood poverty amplified the baseline early-life-adversity-to-CBCL Total Problems slope …

Germany International Students: 46% Depression, 47% Anxiety

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A 2026 survey of 327 international students in Germany found high symptom burden: 46.5% screened positive for moderate-to-severe depression, 46.8% for moderate-to-severe anxiety, and 31.2% endorsed recent death or self-harm thoughts on PHQ-9 item 9. Only 10.9% of students with moderate-to-severe depression and/or anxiety reported professional help.1 Research Highlights 327 international students were surveyed: Karing …

52 Chronic Pain Studies Link Cortisol, Heart Rate, HRV

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A 2026 review of 52 studies found that chronic primary pain is linked to several physiological stress markers, especially cortisol, heart rate, heart-rate recovery, and mean arterial pressure. The pattern is real enough to study, but not clean enough to use as a simple biomarker panel for pain severity.1 Research Highlights 52 studies were reviewed: …

Transgender Discrimination and Violence Across Europe

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Trans people in Europe reported more discrimination and violence than cisgender lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in a 30-country survey of 138,212 respondents. The gap concentrated in identity-based discrimination, physical or sexual attacks, disability, ethnic-minority status, and gender identity within trans groups.1 Research Highlights 30-country gap was large and consistent: trans respondents reported discrimination in …

Sleep Bruxism and GERD: 7 Studies Linked Tooth Grinding With Reflux

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A 2026 scoping review screened 174 records and found 7 human studies linking sleep bruxism with gastroesophageal reflux disease.1 The signal was consistent but messy: case-control studies reported roughly 5- to 6-fold higher odds of bruxism with GERD, while instrumental studies suggested reflux episodes, arousals, swallowing, and jaw-muscle bursts may cluster during sleep. Research Highlights …

Exercise for Cancer Fatigue: Yoga Leads, Aerobic Training Improves QoL

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A 2026 network meta-analysis of 57 randomized trials involving 5,675 cancer survivors found that exercise helped several survivorship symptoms, but the strongest signal depended on the symptom: mind-body exercise ranked highest for cancer-related fatigue, aerobic training ranked highest for health-related quality of life, and combined aerobic plus resistance training led physical-function outcomes.1 Research Highlights Fatigue …

Non-Auditory Tinnitus Linked to Lower Brain Blood Flow

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A 2026 arterial spin labeling MRI study found that 34 patients with non-auditory tinnitus and cerebral venous congestion had lower corrected cerebral blood flow across multiple brain regions than venous-congestion patients without tinnitus and healthy controls.1 Compared with those 2 groups, the tinnitus group had poorer sleep quality, higher depression scores, and slightly lower cognitive …