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Medical Xpress / Study reveals how children with disruptive behavior get 'stuck' in specific brain states

Youth with related behavior challenges may have trouble moving between different brain states, according to a new study from Yale Child Study Center. Their brains appear to get stuck in states with disrupted connections in ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Medical Xpress / Daily exercise and protein drinks may cut care needs for dementia patients, study finds

A simple combination of daily physical exercise and protein-rich nutritional drinks appears to offer significant health benefits for people with dementia. In a new study from Karolinska Institutet, not only did the participants' ...

Medical Xpress / Study splits schizophrenia genetic risk into two pathways, one shared with bipolar disorder

A new study by researchers at King's College London has split schizophrenia risk into two genetically distinct pathways. One is characterized by a shared genetic risk with bipolar disorder and associated with higher educational ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Existing hospital analyzers offer a low-cost method to screen for fake vaccines

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 10.5% of medicines worldwide in low- and middle-income countries are substandard or are falsified (i.e., fake). These medicines and vaccines fail to prevent and treat the ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Vaccination
Medical Xpress / Scalable human neuron networks reveal brain-like rhythms and how drugs reshape them

An EEG (electroencephalogram) is a painless test that uses small sensors placed on the scalp to measure the brain's electrical activity. It provides a real-time readout of brain "waves"—rhythms generated by large groups ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Neuroscience
Medical Xpress / Heart attack study reveals 'survival paradox'

Research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the "one-size-fits-all" approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities. A new study involving more than 900,000 patients ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / KRAS mutation type may guide more effective cancer treatments

KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene across all human cancers. Although different KRAS mutations have long been thought to exert the same cancer-driving effects, a new study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / How age, sex and genetics shape our antibodies

Age, biological sex, and human genetic factors influence the production of antibodies during the immune response. A team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the Collège de France have shown that these factors ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Bone marrow cell atlas created for improved leukemia research

What do healthy bone marrow cells in children look like? For the first time, researchers have mapped this out. Scientists at the Princess Máxima Center examined nearly 91,000 individual bone marrow cells from healthy children. ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Immunology
Medical Xpress / Aggressive oral cancer can be identified at an early stage by changes in lymphatic vessels

Oral cancers with a high risk of recurrence can be identified at an early stage by examining the lymphatic vessels of the tumor. Finnish researchers have discovered for the first time that the surface cells of the lymphatic ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Largest study of rare skin cancer in Mexican patients shows that it is more complex than previously thought

Genetic ancestry may play a key role in how acral melanoma, a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer, develops and behaves, with important implications for diagnosis and treatment, according to researchers at the Wellcome ...

Medical Xpress / Aortic stenosis: 200 newly identified genes raise hope for future treatments

A new study on aortic stenosis, the most common form of heart valve disease, has identified more than 200 new genes that predispose individuals to this condition, for which no treatment currently exists. The discovery of ...

Feb 18, 2026 in Genetics