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CARES Addiction Risk Screening: 15-Stakeholder Preprint

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A 2026 medRxiv preprint interviewed 15 health-system stakeholders about CARES, a freestanding addiction-risk screening platform, and found a clear implementation split: people wanted better substance-use prevention tools than current clinic screening, but provider burden, stigma, knowledge gaps, and medical-record liability could block uptake.1 Research Highlights Stakeholders saw a screening gap: all 15 interviewees held leadership …

Autistic Children Matched Navigation Tasks but Rated Their Ability Lower

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A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that 26 autistic children performed similarly to 25 typically developing children on objective SPACE navigation tasks, contrary to the prediction, while autistic children rated their own navigation ability lower on the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction scale.1 Research Highlights Objective performance did not separate groups: 26 autistic children and 25 …

Teen Wellbeing: Genes Explain 81% Stability, Life Events 1% Change

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People expect life events to drive adolescent wellbeing — conflicts and breakups push it down, friendships and successes push it up. A 2026 longitudinal twin study from Skaug et al. tested this directly in 2,879 Norwegian twins followed from ages 12 to 20 across three waves and found that genetics, not events, explain most of …

Anterior Cingulate Sulcus Asymmetry Linked to Lower Delay Discounting

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A 2026 Human Connectome Project MRI study linked asymmetric anterior cingulate cortex sulcal pattern to lower delay discounting in 390 healthy young adults: asymmetric ACC morphology predicted a higher delay-discounting area under the curve, meaning delayed rewards lost less value.1 The finding is not a diagnostic scan for impulsivity, but it puts an early-formed cortical-folding …

Neighborhood Deprivation Linked to Faster Epigenetic Aging in 370 Adults

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A 2026 medRxiv preprint involving 370 healthy adults found that each increase in neighborhood-deprivation percentile rank was associated with epigenetic age acceleration on 3 of 4 second-generation DNA-methylation clocks, with lifetime adversity explaining 20.3% of the GrimAge association and 23.3% of the PCGrimAge association.1 Research Highlights 3 of 4 clocks accelerated: each increase in Area …

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 …

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 …