Does Chronic Stress Really Lower Hippocampal BDNF? What an LLM Read of 9,585 Studies Actually Says
A plain-language companion to our preprint: an LLM extracted structured data from 9,585 stress–brain studies and found hippocampal BDNF reported down and up about equally, neuroinflammation overtaking the HPA axis since ~2018, and a structural-vs-functional split behind the amygdala contradiction.