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In a 2026 mouse study, male and female mice lacking GPR55, a cannabinoid-related brain receptor, avoided bright, open and social settings and stayed immobile longer in the tail suspension te…
Read articleIn a 2026 study of 48 male rats with fear-conditioned anxiety, 10 days of schisandrin B at 10 or 20 mg/kg increased time in the open arms of an elevated plus maze, similar to diazepam, but n…
Read articleMice that only watched another mouse being attacked developed anxiety- and depression-like behavior, but milder and narrower changes than mice that were attacked themselves, according to a 2…
Read articleCoffee is widely framed as cognitively friendly, but a 2026 prospective study from Boscaini et al. published in Nature Communications used shotgun metagenomics, metabolomics, and cognitive t…
Read articleA 2026 juvenile rat study found that inactivating the ventral pallidum or stimulating nucleus accumbens GABA terminals in the ventral pallidum reduced social play behavior in both sexes, poi…
Read articleA 2026 PET-fMRI study of 20 healthy adults found that GABAA receptor binding tracked speech-production brain activity across frontal, temporal, parietal, putaminal, supplementary motor, and …
Read articleA 2026 serum multiomics study linked occupational noise exposure to tinnitus severity mostly through metabolism: 10 metabolites, including GABA, fumaric acid, and steroid hormone precursors,…
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