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A 2026 systematic review argues that catatonia should be read as a limbic-cortical circuit syndrome, with motor shutdown tied to brain systems for threat, salience, motivation, and emotional…
Read articleViolence exposure was nearly universal by age 8 in a South African birth cohort: 91.1% of children had experienced at least 1 violence type, and 53.6% had experienced more than 1. Recent vio…
Read articleA 2026 iScience study found that both humans and rats could report whether their own 2-second timing responses were small-error or large-error trials, but rats were more accurate on test cho…
Read articleA 2026 humanized P301S tauopathy mouse study found that syntaxin-6 knockout partly rescued early motor impairment from months 1 to 4, protected gait at 5.5 months, reduced frailty (p = 0.005…
Read articleDreams transform waking life rather than replaying it directly. In a 2026 Communications Psychology study of 3,366 reports, dreams were more visual, spatial, social, and bizarre than waking …
Read articleA Nature Communications study found that old vertebrate brains lost almost 40% of cysteine protease deubiquitylase catalytic activity with age, despite relatively stable protein abundance.1 …
Read articleA 2026 cross-sectional schizophrenia study found no meaningful association between antipsychotic dose and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) performance in young, clinically stable outpati…
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