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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Group fMRI Misread Cognitive Control in 4,423 Youth

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A 2026 ABCD stop-signal fMRI study found that group-level cognitive-control brain signals often failed to describe within-person brain dynamics: across 16 comparisons, between-person and within-person associations diverged, and several reversed direction.1 The practical warning is narrow but sharp: a brain pattern that separates people in a group may be the wrong map for explaining how …

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Alzheimer’s Progression AI Model Reaches 0.965 mAUC in TADPOLE Dataset

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A 2026 TADPOLE modeling study reported that a sequential neural process with normalizing flows predicted future Alzheimer diagnostic stage with mAUC 0.965 ± 0.006, ahead of the authors’ earlier sequential-neural-process model at 0.937 ± 0.014.1 The result is a strong benchmark signal for uncertainty-aware disease-progression AI, but it is still retrospective modeling evidence rather than …

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Parkinson’s Sex Differences: Male Flies Show Stronger Rotenone Stress

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A 2026 Drosophila Parkinson’s model exposed male and female flies to 500 μM rotenone. By 60 days, male flies had worse survival/climbing than female flies; the paper is a vulnerability screen, not evidence that the same genes are ready human biomarkers.1 Research Highlights 500 μM rotenone split male and female flies: Iyer et al. used …

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SYNGAP1 Autistic Behaviors Linked to Seizure Type, Not Frequency

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A 337-person SYNGAP1-DEE registry preprint found caregiver-reported autistic behavior scores linked most strongly to atypical absence seizures (n = 77; FDR-adjusted p = .001), while peak seizure-frequency ratings were not detectably associated with those behavior scores.1 Research Highlights Seizure type carried the signal: atypical absences were associated with higher caregiver-reported autistic behavior scores in 77 …

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