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Hospitals are designed to nurse people back to health. Yet we feed patients the poorest quality food. Make it make sense.

Origins and consequences of cognitive fatigue Feature Review by Mathias Pessiglione, Bastien Blain (Bastien Blain), Antonius Wiehler (Antonius Wiehler), & Shruti Naik Free access before May 20: tinyurl.com/2va75b5j

Could inflammation be a specifier for major depression in DSM-6? #depression #inflammation

This study found that only 6.9% of people with mental and substance use disorders received effective treatment, with major barriers including low perceived need, inadequate treatment contact, and insufficient treatment quality. ja.ma/4llis4b

Depression is increasingly common among young adults transitioning to adulthood. A Review in The Lancet Psychiatry explores the factors that affect the resilience of young adults to depression: hubs.li/Q03hBf970

Just in time for the playoff season: Can brain activity signal interest in a hockey game when viewing the game in real time? Yes, but depends on the type of gameplay event being viewed. Hint: it’s not scoring chances.. #NHL #hockey #brain Scientific Reports nature.com/articles/s4159…

Loneliness is a strong determinant for subsequent mental & physical disorders.

The surprising result for a GLP-1 pill (orforglipron) is the magnitude of weight loss in a Phase 3 trial of participants with Type 2 diabetes. For still unexplained reasons, people with diabetes lose much less weight on GLP-1 drugs than those with obesity, w/o diabetes. Graph

Hospitalization due to cannabis use associated with 23% increased risk of dementia diagnosis within the 5 years following (nb even worse for hospitalizations due to alcohol however). TLDR —Both are worth avoiding, especially for older adults. #brainhealth jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Our #metaanalysis (n = 231) in JAMA Psychiatry reveals consistent brain abnormalities across #sleep disorders involving affective and cognitive hubs in sgACC, amygdala/hippocampus Short-term sleep deprivation shows a distinct picture, affecting the thalamus jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

New Science Magazine Exposomics. We're not doing nearly enough to understand and mitigate our toxic environmental exposures. A very insightful perspective science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Healthy lifestyle adherence associated with slower brain aging; an effect moderated by APOE4 status. #brain #prevention thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

Exercise leads to the release of myokines, increasing neuron growth by 4x. 🧵1/10

“In the first study, published in BMJ Public Health, authors conducted a meta-analysis of 28 studies with a combined sample size of 6,481 healthcare workers” “After 12 months, pooled prevalence [of #LongCovid was] 26%”

Increasing physical activity in midlife is associated with more favourable brain morphology indicators (medial temporal lobe) and reduced amyloid burden. #brainhealth #exercise alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

International consensus on long covid diagnosis and treatment. ann-clinmicrob.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

“We sometimes will see someone who’s had Covid one, two or three times without problems, and then on the fourth time, suddenly they’ve got #LongCovid..” says Dr Melissa Heightman theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Benefits of pharmacotherapy and rTMS for neuropathic pain; great review! “Pharmacotherapy and non-invasive neuromodulation for neuropathic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis” - Lancet Neurology #pain sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share my new TiCS paper, currently free to download. After 40 years since I was first obsessed with consciousness, I finally wrote a paper directly about it. A thread on the paper's plot line below. 1/8