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11/16/2025

A Danish cohort study found that adults exposed to sexual assault were at higher risk of developing functional somatic disorders, including single-organ and multiorgan subtypes, over five years.

The findings highlight increased symptom burden across musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, cardiopulmonary, and fatigue-related systems in individuals reporting SA.

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11/14/2025

11/12/2025

Shyness May Originate in the Cerebellum

Shyness may have deeper neural roots than previously thought.

A recent study found that the cerebellum’s spontaneous activity is dampened in shy individuals and that the brain’s threat-monitoring system (BIS) plays a key mediating role.

The Behavioral Activation System (BAS), often linked to reward-seeking behavior, showed no such effect.

This suggests that social inhibition is primarily shaped by brain regions involved in avoidance rather than approach.

11/11/2025

Low Choline Could Be a Hidden Driver of Anxiety

Researchers reviewing 25 brain-imaging studies found an 8% drop in choline levels among people with anxiety disorders compared to those without anxiety.

This pattern was strongest in the prefrontal cortex, a hub for regulating thoughts, emotions, and behavior.

The results suggest that anxiety may involve measurable metabolic imbalances, not just psychological or behavioral factors.

The work opens the door to exploring whether dietary choline or other metabolic interventions could support brain health in anxiety.

11/10/2025

Your Opinions: “If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. If some one maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you should feel pity rather than anger, unless you know so little of arithmetic or geography that his opinion shakes your own contrary conviction. The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”

— Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (1943) Image: Bertrand Russell on the grounds of his home at Penrhyndeudreath, Gwynedd, United Kingdom, 3 March 1965.

11/10/2025

Today, in many places around the world, Halloween celebrations will take place. The spooky holiday culminates with costumes, pumpkins, and trick-or-t | Cancer