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A zebrafish experiment found that one 1-hour ayahuasca exposure reversed several effects of 14 days of unpredictable chronic stress: impaired sociability, anxiety-like behavior, stress-relat…
Read articleA 2026 randomized study involving 80 people with schizophrenia found that adding high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to risperidone improved PANSS cognitive-factor sc…
Read articleA 2026 review of electroacupuncture for depression found a familiar split: mechanistic evidence is rich, but clinical proof remains uneven because representative trials ranged from 65 to 270…
Read articleA 2026 preclinical study found that 25C-NBF, a selective 5-HT2A psychedelic phenethylamine, increased plasticity-related markers and produced rapid antidepressant-like effects in male rodent…
Read articleA 7-day mind-body retreat study in 20 healthy adults found pre/post shifts across fMRI brain networks and plasma biology, with p values as low as 0.000003.1 Those numbers are striking, but t…
Read articleA 91-player adolescent football preprint mapped head-impact-related cortical slowing onto brain receptor and gene-expression maps: concussion-related slowing aligned with norepinephrine tran…
Read articleA 2026 randomized sham-controlled trial in 76 adults with primary insomnia found an 8-week Sancai acupuncture protocol reduced post-treatment Insomnia Severity Index scores to 7.80 vs. 16.45…
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