RESEARCHWhen the brain stops rewarding its own effort
In psychosis risk the problem may not be that the world stops offering rewards, but that the brain stops paying itself for its own effort.
RESEARCHWhen the Depressed Brain Stops Simulating: A Model-Based Learning Deficit
Depression here reads less as a storm of negative predictions than as a quiet letting-go of the wheel – the brain stops simulating consequences and lets choice wander from one option to the next.
RESEARCHRanking Brain Stimulation for Depression: Bilateral Protocols and Focused Ultrasound Come Out on Top
For a depressive episode, the ranking preliminarily favors bilateral prefrontal stimulation, and the older left-sided high-frequency default is no longer the automatic choice.
RESEARCHTiming Is the Dose: Morning Bright Light Reaches Anhedonia in Depression
Same lamp, same lux, same thirty minutes – given in the morning, the effect on anhedonia stands out; the circadian clock, not the mood score, seems to be the target.
RESEARCHWhen the Mind Wanders Off the Breath: A Signature for Interoceptive Attention Lapses
The moment attention slips off the breath is not noise to be averaged away; it is a network-level event, and returning from it is the skill the practice actually builds.
RESEARCHThe Body Keeps Time: How Heart Rate Bends the Sense of Duration
When the heart slows, the felt clock slows with it, and much of that happens beneath anything the patient can report.
RESEARCHNot Whether the Body Is Heard, but How It Is Trusted: Interoception and Suicide Risk
For suicide risk, the meaningful interoceptive variable is not how precisely the body is detected but whether it is trusted and can be used to steady distress.
RESEARCHThe Brain's Heartbeat Signal Is Not a Biomarker Yet: A Cautionary Meta-Analysis
The heartbeat evoked potential is the field's favourite objective marker of interoception, and it cannot yet tell clinical brains from healthy ones.
RESEARCHHow patients talk about illness: four metaphor families and the one that quietly heals
It is not the metaphor's subject that heals or harms, but the emotional tone it carries – the same illness framed as a fight or as a game asks two very different things of the patient.
RESEARCHWhen Metaphor Reframes Faster Than Logic: A Neural Signature for Cognitive Restructuring
A reframe the client logically accepts but cannot feel rarely survives the next bad week; a metaphor that lands recruits memory and semantic systems that help it hold.
RESEARCHThree emotional faces of adult ADHD, and the amygdala circuit that separates them
The brain signature of emotion dysregulation in adult ADHD appeared not in the most impaired patients but in the moderate middle, hinting that it is a circuit configuration rather than a simple severity dial.
RESEARCHThe Autistic Brain Ages on a Different Schedule: A Fluid-Clearance Biomarker for Memory Decline
Memory difficulty in an autistic adult may not be a fixed trait but the visible end of a fluid-clearance cascade that begins in the brain's plumbing.