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Stress, low support, loneliness and depression during pregnancy were the factors most strongly linked to postpartum depression in a 2026 survey of 975 mothers from German-speaking countries.…
Read articleIn a 2026 interview study involving 6 adults with long-term chronic pain in Quebec, participants said their deepest suffering came less from how much they hurt than from what pain did to the…
Read articleA 2026 mouse circuit study found that restraint stress progressively reduced medial prefrontal social coding: mPFC excitatory-neuron transient rates fell to roughly 70-80% of baseline after …
Read articleA 2026 rat study found that foot-shock stress transiently reduced food-cue approach during the first 2 conditioned-stimulus trials (t = 2.807; P < 0.05), and inhibiting the nucleus of the so…
Read articleDreams 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 …
Read articleCannabis users often say the drug helps them blunt stressful memories. A 2026 randomized trial of 36 healthy adults tested low-dose oral THC against placebo during retrieval of a standardize…
Read articleThe link between psychological stress and chronic inflammation is well-documented — what’s been less clear is which specific inflammatory proteins move with anxiety in real-world community s…
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