A group program for work troubles left people feeling steadier — but not more career-driven
In a randomized controlled trial in Quebec, 164 French-speaking adults dealing with career transitions, burnout symptoms, or job-search difficulties took part in seven weekly online group sessions built around acceptance and commitment therapy, or were placed on a waitlist. Compared with the waitlist group, those in the program reported more psychological flexibility, well-being, and meaning at work, along with less distress, and the gains were still present about nine weeks after the sessions ended. Notably, the program group did not show a clear rise in career engagement, and the study relied on self-reported measures. Source: Phys.org — https://phys.org/news/2026-10-struggling-career-psychological-intervention.html
How the brain hits pause on a habit: by scrambling the signal, not silencing it
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin recorded brain activity in two non-human primates as the animals played a computer game that sometimes triggered an automatic, wrong response they then had to override. The team found that a decision-making area, the orbitofrontal cortex, did not quiet the habit-related striatum when an automatic response was stopped; instead, it disrupted the organized pattern of striatum activity while overall activity stayed about the same. The work, published in Neuron, is early-stage animal research, with related human testing still underway. Source: Futurity — https://www.futurity.org/brain-impulse-self-control-3351642/
One sluggish brain rhythm showed up across several schizophrenia symptoms
In a small study published in Science Advances, researchers measured beta-band brain activity with high-resolution MEG imaging in 25 people with schizophrenia and 25 comparison participants while they judged the timing of sights and sounds, and also examined their speech. The patient group showed weaker and slower beta-band activity, and larger differences in that signal went along with more difficulty with sensory timing, more disorganized speech, and more severe symptoms overall. The authors describe this as a first, modest-size study, so the links need testing in larger, independent samples before they can be relied on. Source: Technology Networks — https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/single-brain-signal-may-connect-key-schizophrenia-symptoms-417848