The Mind Behind the Face Pain: Alexithymia and Cognitive Slowing in Trigeminal Neuralgia

Severe facial pain is treated as a surgical wiring fault, but the patient who lives with it often cannot name what they feel — and that, not the vessel, is what the therapist meets.

When Two Brains Fail to Sync: A Neural Marker of Social Difficulty in Autistic Preschoolers

Autistic social difficulty here is not a fault inside one brain but a failure of two brains to couple — which makes the dyad, not the child, the proper target of assessment and intervention.

Mapping the Off-Switch: Personalized Brain Targets for Refractory OCD

The advance is not a new target but a new question — not "where do we stimulate for OCD," but "where, in this particular brain, does the symptom signal live, and which site switches it off."

When the Patient Hears the Words but Not the Meaning: Novel-Metaphor Failure Along the Schizotypy Continuum

A patient can pass every worn-out idiom and still be unable to build a single fresh metaphor — and it is the fresh ones that conversation, therapy, and recovery actually require.

The Insula Reroutes in Untreated OCD — and Cognitive Inflexibility Follows the Wiring

In untreated OCD the affective-interoceptive insula goes quiet toward the thalamus while the control insula over-grips sensorimotor cortex — and the tighter that grip, the harder the patient finds it to shift sets.

A Dopamine Signature for Postpartum Psychosis — Read Off the Midbrain

A standard MRI scanner just read a persistent dopamine signature off the midbrains of women who had recovered from postpartum psychosis — the first biological trace of a disorder we usually only see when it is already an emergency.

Schizophrenia as a Disorder of Network Hierarchy: What Multi-Level fMRI Reveals

Schizophrenia here looks less like a severed cable and more like a hierarchy that has folded in on itself — locally overwired, globally unintegrated.

Resetting the Clock: Triple Chronotherapy as a Fast-Acting Add-On for Bipolar and Unipolar Depression

Chronotherapy buys you the first week — the week suicide risk is highest — but the maintenance plan still has to earn the rest.

Psilocybin Rewires the Cortex Selectively — and Only Where Neurons Fire

Psilocybin does not write change into the cortex — it opens a window in which whatever circuits are firing get to do the writing.

SMART Mental Health in Rural India: When Fidelity Is High, the Referral Cliff Still Wins

The technology identified the need; the people closed the gap; the specialist system absorbed three per cent of it. That ratio is the real design problem in scaling digital mental health.

Russian Medical Students Are Burning Out Faster Than They Did in 2020

Burnout in this Russian medical-student cohort is decoupling from general distress and tracking the work itself — and your incoming supervisees are coming from this pool.

Yoga before EMDR for childhood-abuse PTSD: a French pilot that hits soft outcomes but not the hard one

Trauma-sensitive yoga did not reduce PTSD severity beyond EMDR alone — but it kept more patients in the room and made the EMDR sessions usable.

Chronic Depression Has Its Own Brain: Inflammation Carves a Distinct Circuit Signature

Chronic depression is not acute depression running longer; in the brain it is increasingly a different condition, and CRP only finds its target once the clock has been running long enough.

EMDR for Binge-Eating Disorder: First Pilot RCT Tests a Trauma-Pathway Bet

EMDR moved the affective and intrusive-cognition core of binge eating; it did not move restraint or body image — which is exactly what mechanism would predict.

Maternal Perinatal Depression and Daughter-Specific Autism Risk: A 23,000-Pair Japanese Cohort with a Mechanism

Maternal perinatal depression does not load risk uniformly onto offspring — in this cohort it specifically marks daughters, through a mid-gestation and a postnatal bonding window, with prefrontal oxytocin receptors as a candidate mediator.

Oxytocin Carries the Orphanage Forward: How a Mother's Early Institutional Care Shapes Her Child's Neuroendocrine Response

A mother's institutional childhood does not leave a static deficit — it leaves a muted dynamic response to her own child's call, and the child's oxytocin appears to learn the muting.

HiTOP gets its self-report instrument: 11 factors, one community sample, the dimensional revolution edges closer

A dimensional taxonomy with no instrument is a research argument; a dimensional taxonomy with a validated self-report is the start of a measurement infrastructure.

A Six-Item Screener Outperforms the MDQ for Bipolar Depression in Adolescents

A six-item screen that out-discriminates the MDQ buys you the one thing that matters in adolescent depression — a reason to ask about hypomania before you reach for the prescription pad.

Measurement-Based Care Is No Longer Optional — and the Tooling Has Finally Caught Up

ECR-RS After Cardiac Arrest: A Floor Effect Worth Reading

A score of 1.0 on the anxiety subscale in a cardiac arrest survivor is not secure attachment — it is, more often, a survivor who has decided that loving someone now means not telling them anything.

DSS-20: a 20-item dissociation screener you can actually run on a Monday morning

A 20-item questionnaire will not diagnose dissociation, but it will stop you missing it — and missing it is the most common error in trauma-adjacent practice.

UNESCO Sets the First Global Standard for Neurotechnology Ethics — and It Reaches Into Your Consulting Room

Soft law writes the vocabulary before hard law writes the rules — and mental privacy has just entered the global lexicon as a right worth protecting.

Cobenfy Meets the Ward: First Real-World Data Cools the "New Mechanism" Story

A genuinely new mechanism is not the same as a genuinely better outcome — and treatment-resistant patients are where that distinction gets tested first.

Three Years In: What Oregon's Measure 109 Data Now Tells Clinicians About Real-World Psilocybin Services

Oregon's three-year data shows that legal psilocybin access can be built and sustained — but the model that emerged is adult-use under facilitator supervision, not the medicalised treatment most clinicians were anticipating, and the gap between them is now structural rather than temporary.

The EU AI Act lands on mental health: what changes on 2 August 2026

From 2 August 2026, an AI tool that infers emotion in the workplace or classroom is not "controversial" in the EU — it is illegal.

At-Home tDCS Crosses the FDA Line: What Flow's FL-100 Approval Changes for the Practice

Home neuromodulation is no longer experimental — but it is also not a stand-alone fix; the supervision burden has shifted to your office, just without the chair.