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In a 2026 mouse study, male and female mice lacking GPR55, a cannabinoid-related brain receptor, avoided bright, open and social settings and stayed immobile longer in the tail suspension te…
Read articleThe textbook story of social anxiety disorder is broken amygdala-prefrontal regulation — an overactive threat system the prefrontal cortex can’t calm down. A 2026 effective-connectivity stud…
Read articleResting-state fMRI studies of postpartum depression have produced inconsistent results for years. A 2026 voxel-based meta-analysis pooled 12 studies of 475 patients and found 4 reliable regi…
Read articleA 2026 mouse circuit study found that restraint stress progressively reduced medial prefrontal social coding: mPFC excitatory-neuron transient rates fell to roughly 70-80% of baseline after …
Read articleA 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 articleA 2026 multi-cohort Alzheimer’s disease study found that MRI radiomics from the hippocampus and amygdala linked plasma pTau217 and smell identification to cognitive impairment — with more ad…
Read articleA 2026 resting-state fMRI study of 800 adults found intra-thalamic hypoconnectivity across schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression, but schizophrenia showed far broader subcort…
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