A 2026 Scientific Reports paper by Bényei and Pajkossy finds pupil dilations during n‑back scale with memory load and show substantial test–retest reliability, with methods and preprocessing details for standardising pupillometry.
Read moreA Biological Psychology study found that self-reported disgust and sadness dilate pupils while anger leads to pupil constriction; results come from two lab experiments with 98 and 102 participants who rated five emotions after audio or image stimuli.
Read moreYatharth Super Speciality Hospital in Faridabad opened a dedicated Advanced Brain Stimulation Centre offering TMS and other non-invasive neuromodulation therapies for neurological and psychiatric conditions. The hospital describes the centre as an outpatient service aimed at patients who have not responded to medication.
Read moreA Translational Psychiatry study found that adding a three-day course of rTMS to standard care improved sleep duration and efficiency and reduced frontal hyperactivity in adults (18–40) with acute influenza; IgM and neutrophils correlated with sleep impairment. The trial was nonrandomized (n=55) and limited to younger adults.
Read moreIn a Gates Cambridge Conversations interview, Julia Maybury and Sri Jagannathan described their sleep research, covering human memory precision, fruit‑fly neural mapping, and trade‑offs between lab EEG and at‑home wearables.
Read moreJiangsu Cancer Hospital is recruiting 120 patients into a double‑blind RCT (ChiCTR2500112808) testing two sessions of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (TaVNS) versus sham to reduce perioperative anxiety in laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery; primary outcome is HADS‑A measured days 1–3 and at three months.
Read moreA University of Cologne–Charité team published an open dataset of hourly symptom diaries matched to bilateral wrist accelerometry from 66 Parkinson’s patients (393.8 days of concurrent data). The files, metadata and example Matlab scripts are available on OSF.
Read moreUCHealth and CU Anschutz performed Colorado’s first implanted brain–computer interface surgery, implanting a device in higher‑level brain areas to restore motor and sensory function and collect long‑term data on cognition and movement.
Read moreA Beijing team published a longitudinal DBS–fMRI dataset from 14 Parkinson’s patients in Nature Neuroscience and found that clinical response correlated with normalization of the somato‑cognitive action network (SCAN). The authors released the data for other researchers and link SCAN changes to potential personalized DBS strategies.
Read moreSlippery Rock junior Carmella Ryan and instructor Shannon McKnight are launching an EEG study of emotional memory that measures the late-positive potential; Ryan narrowed 2,200 words to 120 and the team is recruiting adult participants.
Read moreUT Southwestern’s 28th Capra Symposium showcased clinical uses of virtual reality in surgical training, pain and anxiety reduction, and rehabilitation, and reported pilot data showing >5% peak-VO2 gains in lower-fit participants during immersive exercise tests.
Read moreelectroCore reported April 7, 2026 that the first eight patients have enrolled in an investigator-led study of its gammaCore non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation device for PTSD; the trial will enroll up to 40 adults and assess CAPS-5 change after 12 weeks.
Read moreA Frontiers Perspective accepted 6 April 2026 warns that long-term and unsupervised use of tDCS lacks systematic safety data and urges researchers, regulators and vendors to adopt safeguards and materiovigilance.
Read moreMatrouh University researchers describe an AI system combining eye‑tracking and emotion recognition to monitor and adapt attention during storytelling for children with autism. The published excerpt lists authors and approach but does not include outcome or sample data.
Read moreThe UK TRICEPS trial is recruiting roughly 270 stroke patients across 19 centres to test daily ear-based vagus nerve stimulation combined with physiotherapy; researchers say evidence for external VNS is promising but still incomplete and larger trials are underway.
Read moreA new meta-analysis synthesizes resting‑state fMRI studies to identify shared spontaneous brain‑activity alterations across psychiatric diagnoses and highlights candidate transdiagnostic targets for follow‑up work.
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