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Cognitive support.
Short peptides that influence BDNF, neurotrophic signalling and stress-resilience pathways. The most clinically-mature area in this library.
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Cognitive-support research covers short peptides studied for their effect on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signalling, stress-axis regulation, and connectomic outcomes measured by functional imaging. This is the area in the library with the strongest human evidence base: a 2026 Marshall systematic review supplies the L5 anchor, with functional-imaging and BDNF/memory work from Panikratova 2020 and Kolik 2019 supporting the underlying mechanism.
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