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What is Decision Fatigue and How Does it Affect Your Brain and Daily Choices?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (485+ words) Decision fatigue describes how repeated decision-making reduces cognitive efficiency, leading individuals to rely on simpler, less effortful choices over time. It arises from the interaction of cognitive, motivational, and neural processes and has measurable impacts on behavior, brain function, and…...
Next-generation CAR T therapy offers hope but faces clinical challenges
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (419+ words) A new editorial perspective was published in Volume 17 of Oncotarget on February 20, 2026, titled "CAR-T therapy: Trailblazing CAR(ing) in cancer treatment." Led by Uzma Saqib - with corresponding. .. Next-generation CAR T therapy offers hope but faces clinical challenges A new editorial…...
Dreams happen beyond REM sleep, analysis shows
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (226+ words) An international consortium of researchers has created the largest-ever database compiling records of brain activity during sleep and dream reports. One of the first analyses of the database confirmed. .. Dreams happen beyond REM sleep, analysis shows An international consortium of…...
Integrated pediatric behavioral health care reduces symptoms in children
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (559+ words) Research led by the Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health Care Universally in Pediatrics (TEAM UP) Scaling and Sustainability Center of Boston Medical Center (BMC) finds that children who receive behavioral health services delivered through the TEAM UP Model…...
GLP-1 receptor agonists improve mood and metabolic health in adults with mental illness
11+ mon, 3+ day ago (529+ words) Mental illnesses are associated with an increased risk of weight gain and metabolic disorders like obesity and type 2 diabetes. Estimates suggest that around 60% of people with severe mental disorders are living with overweight or obesity. Substantial weight gain is also…...
Breakthrough treatment for advanced prostate cancer could eliminate severe side effects
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (546+ words) Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that could eliminate a side effect so debilitating that patients often refuse the life-saving therapy. In a study recently published in Molecular Imaging and Biology, the…...
PTSD following sexual assault linked to profound fronto-limbic brain changes
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (211+ words) Worldwide, between 17% and 25% of women undergo a sexual assault, with around 70% subsequently developing PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Previous PTSD studies, after natural disasters, accidents or war, have revealed changes in how the brain communicates. Now a group of Spanish scientists…...
What happens in the brain on psychedelics? Scientists identify a common circuit pattern
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (240+ words) A sweeping international analysis suggests psychedelics do not just alter perception, they reconfigure how major brain networks communicate, offering one of the clearest maps yet of their large-scale effects on the human brain. Study: An international mega-analysis of psychedelic drug…...
Study reveals pancreatic cancer's early immune evasion tactics
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (316+ words) A new study suggests that pancreatic cancer may start preparing to "hide" from the immune system long before the disease becomes full-blown cancer. Researchers found that very early, precancerous. .. Study reveals pancreatic cancer's early immune evasion tactics A new study…...
FDA clears investigational new drug application to test s CAR-T therapy for autoimmune conditions
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (944+ words) Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines, the drug discovery division of Scripps Research, announced today that the FDA has cleared their investigational new drug (IND) application to study switchable chimeric antigen receptor T cell (s CAR-T) therapy (CLBR001 + SWI019) in patients with autoimmune…...