A 2026 medRxiv preprint built a reusable NeuroMark SPECT template from 2 large independent component analysis rounds, then applied it to 137 schizophrenia patients and 76 controls; after false-discovery-rate correction, 23 of 68 perfusion components differed between groups.1 Those data support infrastructure for comparing SPECT perfusion networks across datasets, with standalone schizophrenia diagnosis left outside …
A 2026 Nature Neuroscience study found that awake mouse brain motion was driven mainly by locomotion-linked abdominal muscle activity, not by respiration or cardiac rhythm; the researchers mapped displacement vectors at 134 cortical sites in 24 mice and modeled how that motion could push fluid out of brain tissue.1 The result sharpens the body-brain mechanics …
A 430-caregiver study in Kathmandu found caregiving burden in 65.3% of family caregivers of older adults with disability, with adjusted predictors clustering around low economic status, 8 or more daily care hours, and severe impairment in activities of daily living.1 Research Highlights Burden was the majority experience: 65.3% of 430 family caregivers reported caregiving burden …
A 259-person multiple system atrophy survey found diagnosed neurogenic orthostatic hypotension in 41.7% of respondents, while another 40.0% had upright symptoms suspicious for nOH without a diagnosis and 21.2% reported never having upright blood pressure measured.1 The operational problem is simple: in MSA, low blood pressure on standing can be disabling, missed, and still undertreated …
A 2026 study involving 32 adult mangrove rivulus fish pairs found that 3,000 µg/L waterborne psilocybin reduced movement and aggressive swimming bursts, but the result belongs in animal behavioral pharmacology, not in human aggression treatment claims.1 Research Highlights Fish movement decreased: psilocybin produced a treatment-by-time interaction for time spent moving (p = 0.006), with a …
Major upper-extremity amputation was linked to substantially higher odds of new mental-health diagnosis, antidepressant initiation, and psychotherapy claims than minor upper-extremity amputation in a matched national database study. The clearest clinical implication is early mental-health screening after major limb loss, not waiting for distress to surface months later.1 Research Highlights 2,452 matched patients were analyzed: …
A 2026 biomarker study found kynurenine-pathway activation in inflammatory major depressive disorder (MDD), but not across all depression cases. Compared with non-inflammatory MDD and healthy controls, the inflammatory subgroup had higher pathway metabolites, and omega-3 treatment reduced several of them over 8 weeks.1 Research Highlights Inflammatory depression showed kynurenine activation: people with MDD and high-sensitivity …