PTSD symptom scores fell by about half among 94 US servicemembers who completed a 4-week program of EEG-guided magnetic brain stimulation, according to a 2026 chart review. The program had no control group, so the study cannot show how much of that drop came from the treatment itself.1 Research Highlights PTSD scores dropped 48%: average …
A 2026 meta-analysis of 7 small Chinese trials found that adding herbal patches on acupuncture points to usual stroke care improved self-rated sleep in 608 stroke survivors with sleep problems.1 The researchers rated that evidence as very low certainty, and safety was barely reported. Research Highlights Better sleep scores: across 6 trials (536 people), Pittsburgh …
Nearly 1 in 5 people with COPD in Lithuania had a recorded diagnosis of anxiety or depression, according to a nationwide study of 64,246 patients. Anxiety was far more common than depression, and most patients who received medication were prescribed benzodiazepines.1 Research Highlights 18.1% had a recorded diagnosis: 11,608 of 64,246 adults with COPD in …
University students who used an AI chatbot for 12 weeks ended with anxiety scores about 2 points lower than students in weekly group therapy, in a randomized trial of 977 students in Israel.1 The gap was still there 3 months later. But it came less from the chatbot users improving a lot than from anxiety …
A 2026 meta-analysis of 50 studies estimated that about 1 in 3 people with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) have ADHD (33%), and that roughly 1 in 10 have autism (11%), seizures (11%), depression (13%), or anxiety (12%).1 Every one of those figures sits well above typical population rates, but the individual studies disagreed so widely …
A 76-person Nature Communications fMRI study found that people with major depressive disorder spent a higher share of time in a model-derived State 3 than healthy controls, 27.63 vs. 25.65, p(FDR) = 0.035, and State 3 occupancy correlated with QIDS depression severity, r2 = 0.268, p(FDR) = 0.008.1 The result points to altered brain-state transitions …
A 5-year PPMI cohort analysis found that lower serum uric acid independently predicted incident depression in prodromal Parkinson’s disease (HR = 0.776; 95% CI 0.619-0.974; P = 0.029).1 The signal sits beside a lower-p-value non-motor symptom predictor: higher MDS-UPDRS Part I scores also predicted depression (HR = 1.177; 95% CI 1.093-1.267; P < 0.001). Research ...