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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…
Read articleA 2026 Environmental Science & Technology experiment found that wild guppies still reduced maze solve times with practice after 11-day exposure to environmentally motivated amitriptyline con…
Read articleA 2026 mouse study found that complete IL-6 deficiency worsened motor dysfunction and dopaminergic injury in MPTP and alpha-synuclein A53T Parkinson’s disease models, with earlier and broade…
Read articleA 2026 multicenter Italian cohort followed 216 early Parkinson’s disease patients for 24 months after levodopa initiation and found sex/gender differences in non-motor symptom burden.1 Women…
Read articleA 2026 Drosophila Parkinson’s model exposed male and female flies to 500 μM rotenone. By 60 days, male flies had worse survival/climbing than female flies; the paper is a vulnerability scree…
Read articleA 2026 ECG analysis involving 269 healthy young adults found that sex differences in resting heart-rate dynamics appeared in very short 2-5 second fluctuations, not in the usual 5-minute hea…
Read articleA 2026 Singapore birth-cohort preprint found a conditional childhood-anxiety signal: the cord-blood DNA methylation component predicted less age-13 anxiety only in boys in the low DMN-limbic…
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