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A carbohydrate-based meal spikes cortisol in healthy men—while protein or fat allow levels to decline. This may explain why carb-heavy “comfort foods” paradoxically sustain stress and sabotage weight regulation 🧵1/8

A new blood biomarker for Alzheimer's disease accurately tracks Tau protein aggregate build up in the brain nature.com/articles/s4159…

Interesting study 🙂👇 How the brain remembers what gave you food poisoning | Princeton Neuroscience Institute ⁦Chris Zimmerman⁩ ⁦Princeton University⁩ pni.princeton.edu/news/2025/how-…

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Great team work led by Karas Lab Congrats all😃! A new approach to deliver DNA to #diatoms. Surprisingly simple and effective and not only applicable to Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Try it out even on other algae!

QIMR Berghofer researchers have contributed to the world’s largest genetic study of #osteoarthritis, helping uncover 513 new #genetic links to the condition. 📍 Read more: qimrb.edu.au/whats-on/news/… 📍 Paper in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… Helmholtz Munich | @HelmholtzMunich

Disabling the TIM-3 protein in brain immune cells enhances their ability to clear Alzheimer’s-related plaques, improves cognition in mice, and suggests a promising therapeutic target. #Alzheimers #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #NatureResearch nature.com/articles/s4158…

Happy to share my first first-author paper !! We have explored the population differences in allele frequency for pathogenic variants in monogenic Parkinson’s genes, using gnomAD data across 8 global populations. mdpi.com/2073-4425/16/4…

#AcademicTwitter Get a grip! 😂#phdvoice #PhDlife

Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Over one million Australians were living with an eating disorder in 2023. If you are aged 18+ and currently living with, or have experienced an eating disorder, please consider participating in the ‘Eating Disorders Genetics Initiative 2’ study. More: edgi2.org.au

Most viewed this week from JAMA Neurology: Autism spectrum disorder was associated with increased risk of Parkinson disease, even after adjusting for depression or antidepressant use and antipsychotic exposure. ja.ma/43MkIcO

🔬 After the breakthrough of CGRP-targeted treatments, what’s next in migraine research? 📌 Emerging evidence suggests amylin—a peptide in the same family as CGRP—may play a role in migraine pathophysiology. 🧠 This new review explores: ✔️ Amylin’s link with CGRP signaling ✔️

New breast cancer hope QIMR Berghofer research in collaboration with Kazia Therapeutics has found that combining #paxalisib with immunotherapy shows promise in fighting triple negative breast cancer, overcoming treatment resistance & preventing cancer cell spread shorturl.at/iBrjV

New Article in Cephalalgia! Migraine: Beyond Biology Migraine is more than a neurological disorder — it is a deeply personal, emotional, and existential experience. This new review explores migraine through a philosophical lens, bridging neuroscience, clinical care, and patient

Open Access: This cross-sectional study identified #pain catastrophizing as a crucial cognitive-affective factor mediating the relationship between pain experience & disability in patients with #migraine …adachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CBEJIQPV… Julia Ohse Joshua Krutzki et al

✨🧠 New Topical Collection in Cephalalgia! ✨🧠 "Toward International Classification of Headache Disorders – 4 (ICHD-4)" 📍OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS As we look ahead to the next edition of the ICHD, this collection invites high-level contributions to address current limitations,

✅ Published in nature today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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