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In 2 cohorts of adults over 60, having both insomnia and anxiety was linked to double the odds of cognitive impairment and a 54% higher rate of new dementia. Either condition alone was not.
Read articleIn 447,821 UK Biobank adults, those who recalled being thinner than average at age 10 and had a high adult BMI had the highest rates of later depression and anxiety.
Read articleA 2026 UK Biobank analysis by Aas et al. in BMC Medicine tests the “adversity leaves a fixed biological scar” framing against five biological aging markers in 153,557 middle-aged and older a…
Read articleA 2025 paper by Gu et al. in Molecular Psychiatry — the largest study of its kind — finds that higher common-variant genetic risk for autism predicts lower cortical neurite density in 31,748…
Read articleA 2026 UK Biobank MRI preprint involving 71,214 adults found that chronic pain plus current depression had a structural brain profile that was more than chronic pain plus depression pasted t…
Read articleExecutive functioning (EF) is a cognitive cornerstone essential for goal-directed behaviors and complex thinking. Recent research leveraging the massive UK Biobank dataset has shed new light…
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