Dreams transform waking life rather than replaying it directly. In a 2026 Communications Psychology study of 3,366 reports, dreams were more visual, spatial, social, and bizarre than waking reports, while attitude toward dreaming, mind-wandering tendency, sleep quality, and COVID lockdown stress each left measurable fingerprints on dream content.1 Research Highlights Dreams were not random word …
Sleep problems during chemotherapy include more than daytime fatigue. In a 2026 outpatient chemotherapy sample, 87% reported poor sleep quality and 61% had variable sleep timing, while measured bedroom light, temperature, and self-reported environmental disruption were not significantly linked to overall sleep health.1 Research Highlights Small chemotherapy sample: Adams et al. studied 23 adults receiving …
A 2026 arterial spin labeling MRI study found that 34 patients with non-auditory tinnitus and cerebral venous congestion had lower corrected cerebral blood flow across multiple brain regions than venous-congestion patients without tinnitus and healthy controls.1 Compared with those 2 groups, the tinnitus group had poorer sleep quality, higher depression scores, and slightly lower cognitive …
A 2026 randomized trial in early postmenopausal women found that 8 weeks of app-based combined aerobic and resistance exercise reduced Beck Depression Inventory scores by 7.30 points, compared with 2.20 points after education-only control and 5.65 points after face-to-face exercise. A structured home program delivered through a mobile platform improved depression, fatigue, sleep quality, and …
A 210-person randomized assessor-blinded trial found that adding weekly Hegu-point catgut embedding to gabapentin improved 4-week postherpetic-neuralgia response from 80.00% to 92.38%; compared with gabapentin alone, the add-on arm also ended with lower sleep-problem scores and fewer adverse events.[1] This 2026 trial supports an add-on signal that still needs sham-controlled confirmation because follow-up lasted only …
A 2026 mixed-methods study of 32 chronic non-cancer pain patients found the strongest satisfaction signal when prescribed cannabis-based medicines affected stress, sleep, coping, anxiety, appetite, and daily function — not pain intensity alone.1 Research Highlights 32 patients were interviewed: Pombeiro Stein et al. studied adults from a German pain clinic who had used physician-prescribed cannabis-based …
A 2026 randomized trial in 63 adults with type 2 diabetes found that progressive muscle relaxation was linked to a large fatigue drop in the intervention group, from a Fatigue Severity Scale mean of 51.58 to 34.12, but adjusted between-group tests did not confirm a clear advantage over control for fatigue or sleep quality.1 The …