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A 2026 PREDIMED-Plus cohort analysis linked higher olive-oil intake with 2-year cognitive preservation in 656 older adults, with each 10 g/day increment associated with higher global cogniti…
Read articleA 2026 rat study found that 21 days of late-adolescent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) exposure produced adult anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus maze and weaker novel object recognition …
Read articleA 245-person BeLOVE MRI analysis found that tissue immediately surrounding white matter hyperintensities already carried measurable injury: magnetization transfer saturation was lower inside…
Read articleA 2026 experiment involving 81 healthy adults found similar pareidolia counts across natural and white-noise images, but different content: natural images favored natural-world categories (7…
Read articleA 2026 two-experiment study found no visual-working-memory benefit from parietal or occipital transcranial direct current stimulation, while distraction unexpectedly made the cardinal-over-o…
Read articleA 2026 analysis of 174 people with non-affective first-episode psychosis found that cognitive reserve was tied to 3 signals available near illness onset: age at onset, family history of psyc…
Read articleA 1.6M-participant meta-analysis shows a clear gradient: parental schizophrenia hits offspring cognition harder than bipolar, which hits harder than MDD.
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