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In 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 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 articleAutistic young people who also have ADHD showed weaker resting brain connections than autistic peers without ADHD, according to a 2026 brain-imaging study of 69 people.1 Most autism-linked d…
Read articleNeurons that tracked a remembered smell turned up all over the mouse brain in a newly released dataset of 33,028 neurons recorded from 40 mice. The 2026 data paper makes those recordings fre…
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 articleA 2026 quantitative MRI preprint reanalyzed 138 healthy adults and found that multivariate modeling detected coordinated age-related shifts across myelin-sensitive, iron-sensitive, and water…
Read articleA 2025 Nature Aging study found that hippocampal ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1) rose with age in mouse neurons, tracked poorer cognition, and became experimentally reversible in old mice. Thi…
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