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A 2026 randomized trial of 74 psychiatric inpatients found that 5 consecutive MIDI-assisted group music therapy sessions reduced DASS-21 stress more than 1 session during the same hospital w…
Read articleA 2026 participatory-design and case-study paper turned smartphone mental-health data into 6 clinician-facing visualizations for an 8-week anxiety/depression digital clinic, using feedback f…
Read articleA 2026 nationwide Korean analysis found that resistance exercise was associated with lower depression and anxiety scores after propensity score matching, while aerobic exercise alone was not…
Read articleA 2026 study of 958 adults entering Japanese multidisciplinary pain centers found that 17.1% screened positive for ADHD, rising to 27.4% among patients whose average pain was NRS 9-10; ASD s…
Read articleA 2026 fMRI meta-analysis of 11 studies found a narrow anxious-depression signal: 829 anxious-depression patients differed from 681 non-anxious MDD patients in left middle temporal gyrus act…
Read articleA 2026 Nature mouse study found that basolateral amygdala astrocyte Ca2+ signals tracked fear retrieval and extinction, then showed causality: 3 mg/kg CNO manipulations of astrocyte DREADDs …
Read articleA 2026 fMRI study of 84 medication-free adolescents found that reward uncertainty had its own phase-specific brain pattern: anxiety, depression, and anhedonia separated across different task…
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