In a national trial of 570 adults, suicidal ideation declined within 1 week of starting Opioid use disorder meds. Both buprenorphine-naloxone and extended-release naltrexone helped, but buprenorphine showed stronger early effects.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00952990.2025.2524110
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Autistic adults overwhelmed by non-verbal social cues, describing the intense mental effort it takes to navigate nonverbal communication in a new study. These challenges often lead to misunderstandings from those around them. This mutual disconnect is known as the Double Empathy Problem.
https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2025/July/Autistic-Adults-Overwhelmed-by-Nonverbal-Social-Cues
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Despite warming trends, the US still gets hit by brutal cold snaps. A new study links these outbreaks to shifts in the stratospheric polar vortex: high-altitude winds that can steer winter weather far below.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq9557
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Adults with autism show similar brain mapping of body parts as typically developing adults | Researchers reveal that adults with autism show brain patterns for body part perception similar to typical adults, despite behavioral differences
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090726
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A new study suggests that adding okra to the diet can protect against long-term metabolic problems caused by early-life overfeeding. In a rat model, okra supplementation prevented obesity, high blood sugar, and brain inflammation associated with being overnourished during infancy.
https://www.psypost.org/a-common-vegetable-may-counteract-brain-changes-linked-to-obesity/
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Fish may be smarter than we think. Lab-based studies of learning and memory in fish may underestimate their true cognitive abilities in the wild. A new tool allows scientists to study fish cognition in the wild. The study of fish cognition has implications for the care of captive fish.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/animal-minds/202507/fish-are-smarter-than-you-think
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Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons | The discovery turns a century-old view of dopamine on its head and could transform how we treat everything from ADHD to Parkinson’s disease.
https://newatlas.com/mental-health/dopamine-precision-neuroscience/
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New study: 4 years after pre-surgical immunotherapy, most patients with advanced melanoma remain alive and disease-free
https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/most-patients-with-advanced-melanoma-who-received-pre-surgical-immunotherapy-remain-alive-and-disease-free-four-years-later.h00-159778023.html
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A new study shows that early investment in geothermal tech could power 1 in 5 US homes by 2050
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2542435125001527
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The largest review of ‘gold standard’ antidepressant withdrawal studies to date has identified the type and incidence of symptoms experienced by people discontinuing antidepressants, finding that most people do not experience severe withdrawal
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jul/largest-review-its-kind-identifies-antidepressant-withdrawal-symptoms
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Loneliness dramatically increases a person's risk of depression and poor health. People who felt lonely 'always' had a fivefold increase in depression risk, 11 more poor mental health days, and five additional poor physical health days per month compared to those who never felt lonely,"
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/07/10/1561752168025/
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A common assumption about aging may be wrong, study suggests: « Experts have long pointed to inflammation as a natural part of getting older. But a new paper suggests it might be more a product of our environment. »
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/well/live/aging-inflammation-lifespan-environment.html
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Most popular teen movies don’t reflect the true challenges of adolescence, suggests new research. Unlike a typical high school student, protagonists in movies, for example, are rarely shown to struggle with the physical aspects of puberty, and typically excel at initiating romantic relationships.
https://news.osu.edu/popular-teen-movies-reel-back-from-visible-signs-of-puberty/
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A new study values food wasted by US vacation renters at $2 billion each year. Based on survey results, researchers estimated groceries, takeout & restaurant leftovers averaging $12 in value per night of short-term lodging goes uneaten, & wasted food per trip amounts to 5% of the nightly fee.
https://news.osu.edu/us-vacation-renters-waste-2-billion-worth-of-food-annually/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy26&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social
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Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02224-z
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Lyme Disease study finds CDC test misses most cases of early Lyme
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2025.1577936/full
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Children (10-16Y) are at a similar risk of dehydration and hyperthermia in extreme heat as adults, contradicting previous advice that children are more susceptible to heat-related illnesses
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/07/10/hot-weather-causes-children-to-sweat-at-the-same-rate-as-adults-study-shows.html
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Research studying GABA's effects in mental hygiene showed correlations between high cortisol levels and low GABA levels in depressive people
https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-025-07056-z
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Climate change and aerosol pollution made drought inevitable in the US Southwest: Study
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5392107-climate-change-aerosol-pollution-southwest-drought/
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Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth’s poles slightly away from the planet’s axis of rotation | The construction of nearly 7,000 dams from 1835 to 2011 shifted the poles about a meter in total and caused a 21-millimeter drop in global sea levels.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/we-dammed-so-much-water-it-moved-earths-poles
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Researchers summarised data of 85 studies from more than 8 million people, finding that lifelong physical activity reduced the risk of premature death, while inactive people who became active later in life could lower their risk by 20-25%.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/staying-physically-active-cuts-risk-of-early-death-by-40-per-cent
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Denmark has been offering free vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) to girls since 2008. New data show vaccination has effectively reduced infections with cancerogenic HPV 16/18 types covered by the vaccine, indicating population immunity.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090640
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Scientists use deep learning to uncover hidden motor signs of neurodivergence | Using AI to analyze subtle patterns in how people move their hands during simple tasks, identifying with surprising accuracy whether someone is likely to have autism, attention-deficit traits, or both.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-04294-9
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Despite its name, young adult books are increasingly dominated by stories about older teens and even adults. As protagonists get older, younger readers are left behind. As young adult genre spiked in recent years, so too has age of readers. More than a quarter of young adult readers are 28 or older.
https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/07/young-adult-literature-is-not-as-young-as-it-used-to-be/index.html
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Active video games with narrative through lines could benefit children with obesity, new research finds.
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/07/09/active-video-games-obesity-research/
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Researchers have now developed an efficient system to extract and convert dissolved CO₂ into clean fuels and useful industrial feedstock. This breakthrough could transform seawater into a sustainable source for carbon-based products while helping balance oceanic CO₂ levels.
https://engineering.yale.edu/news-and-events/news/making-fuels-sunlight
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New research shows Americans can’t tell healthy processed foods from unhealthy ones | Doctor’s group: Consumption of items such as bacon, bologna, and hot dogs — not processed plant foods — associated with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090428
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Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history | Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health today.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/large-scale-dna-study-maps-37000-years-of-human-disease-history
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Humor may not be inherited. Twin study suggests the ability to be funny may not run in the family. People’s actual ability to produce jokes that make others laugh appears to come almost entirely from environmental factors.
https://www.psypost.org/is-humor-inherited-twin-study-suggests-the-ability-to-be-funny-may-not-run-in-the-family/
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Global vaccine stockpiles prevented more than 5.8 million cases and 327,000 deaths between 2000-2023 for five diseases — cholera, Ebola, measles, meningitis and yellow fever, providing economic benefits of almost US$32 billion.
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/global-vaccine-stockpiles-prevented-more-than-5-8-million-cases
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