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A longitudinal MIDUS analysis involving 840 adults found that loneliness scores higher than a person's objective social-isolation score were linked to later cognitive impairment mainly throu…
Read articleSome sleep apnea patients stay sleepy even when their CPAP is used 6+ hours a night and apnea events have been driven back to normal range. A 2026 cross-sectional study of 65 PAP-adherent ad…
Read articleA 2026 study by Bai et al. in Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience uses Mendelian randomization (MR) — inherited genetic variants as a natural experiment to test causality — and concludes that…
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 systematic review of advanced neuroimaging in multiple sclerosis narrowed 600 database records to 12 studies and found the clearest cognition signal in basal ganglia iron-sensitive MR…
Read articleStandard memory testing can tell a multiple-sclerosis (MS) patient that recall is normal after 30 minutes while missing a deficit that appears days later. Jansen et al. tested that exact bli…
Read articleIn the quest to understand the enigmatic nature of depression, scientists are turning to the intricate patterns of brain activity, seeking clues hidden within the electrical storm of thought…
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