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A Kaiser Permanente Southern California cohort involving 294,937 children linked extreme prenatal nighttime heat to autism diagnosis by age 5, with stronger associations at the 99th percenti…
Read articleA 327-person eye-tracking study found that anxiety disorders carried a hyper-scanning and hyper-pursuit signature, separating anxiety patients from healthy controls with AUC 0.82.1 The same …
Read articleA 2026 rat study found that activating PACAP signaling in the lateral septum amplified stress-hormone release and anxiety-like behavior, while blocking endogenous PACAP receptors produced an…
Read articleA 2026 study of 250 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) found that family burden was strongly tied to lower social support, lower family quality of li…
Read articleA 2026 longitudinal study found reassuring cognitive trajectories after mild-to-moderate COVID-19: Alpha/Delta and Omicron groups both improved by follow-up, and neither group showed persist…
Read articleDaytime agitation in dementia fluctuates day-to-day, and a 2026 explanatory study from Liu et al. used contactless under-mattress sensors in 55 long-term-care residents and an external 17-pe…
Read articleA 2026 behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia MRI study found that simple visual ratings of orbitofrontal and frontoinsular brain atrophy helped separate probable from possible bvFTD, wi…
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