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In 56 Parkinson's patients in China, those with both anxiety and depression had lower serum VIP and higher IL-1 beta than those with neither. A one-time, single-center study.
Read articleIn a 2026 study of 40 male rats under 6 weeks of daily restraint stress, 2 weeks of celecoxib improved open-field, maze and swim-test behavior and lowered hippocampal TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, IL…
Read articleUniversity students with subthreshold depression, meaning real depressive symptoms that fall short of a major depression diagnosis, had stronger connections in 3 cingulate brain circuits and…
Read articleA Cell Reports study tied C9orf72-related ALS/FTD inflammation to a gut-bacterial product: inflammatory microbial glycogen appeared in 15 of 22 ALS fecal samples, 1 of 1 C9orf72-frontotempor…
Read articleA 2026 controlled study of 96 people found severe long-COVID fatigue across 3 validated fatigue scales, but the tested peripheral inflammation, cellular-stress, neuroprotection, and autoimmu…
Read articleA 2026 Journal of Neuroinflammation review organized parasite-linked neuropsychiatric risk around 5 gut-immune-brain routes; direct CNS parasitic disease carries the clearest signal, while b…
Read articleA 2026 exploratory analysis of the ABCD cancer dyspnea trial found that higher baseline cytokines predicted less placebo symptom improvement than lower baseline cytokines across 33 of 40 cyt…
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