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An EEG-guided neuromodulation system received FDA clearance for PTSD treatment based on a randomized controlled trial. The platform uses individualized brain activity data to guide therapy, though detailed efficacy results have not been disclosed.

Accelerometer-derived sleep-wake cycle metrics independently predicted incident dementia in 53,448 UK Biobank participants, with predictive improvement comparable to APOE genotype contribution when added to age-only models.

Brain-predicted age difference and socioeconomic status moderated the relationship between AD pathology markers and cognitive performance in a cross-sectional cohort of 621 cognitively unimpaired older adults.

Baseline cognitive performance predicted future depression risk in opposite directions depending on depression history: lower cognition signaled higher risk in never-depressed controls, while higher cognition was associated with greater relapse risk in remitted depression, in a longitudinal UK Biobank analysis of 3,724 participants.

The American Cancer Society updated its colorectal cancer screening guidelines to include two new multitarget stool tests and a blood-based option, while maintaining colonoscopy as the gold standard and the age-45 screening initiation recommendation for average-risk adults.

Hematopoietic loss of the X chromosome in peripheral blood was associated with more than twofold the odds of failing to conceive naturally in a Japanese multicenter case-control study, with no corresponding association found in women undergoing ART.