PSYREFLECT

Issue #28

April 9, 2026

#1Research

Two Conditions, One Stimulation Target: rTMS for Chronic Low Back Pain With Insomnia

Why treat pain and insomnia separately when a single brain target can address the shared circuit that maintains both?

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#2Research

Same IQ, Different Language: Russian Study Reveals Distinct Linguistic Profiles in Autism vs. Down Syndrome

Same IQ, different language. When you control for cognition, autism and Down syndrome reveal fundamentally different linguistic architectures.

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#3Tool

Depression and Anxiety Look Identical on Symptom Scales — But Their Resilience Profiles Are Opposite

Depression collapses all coping. Anxiety exhausts it. Same symptom overlap, opposite resilience architecture, different treatment target.

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#4Industry

Russia's Psychiatric Reform Stalls: 25% Fewer Beds, But Community Services Haven't Followed

Closing hospital beds without opening community services is not deinstitutionalisation. It is abandonment with better optics.

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#5Industry

Schema Therapy Breaks Free From BPD: The Transdiagnostic Expansion Into Eating Disorders, Chronic Depression, and Beyond

Schema therapy was built for BPD. It turns out what it actually treats is the developmental damage that BPD shares with eating disorders, chronic depression, and complex anxiety.

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#6Resource

Third-Wave Therapy Training Guide 2026: ACBS Lyon, ISST Online, and the Road to Hong Kong 2027

ACT works at the process level. Schema therapy works at the developmental level. Together, they cover more clinical territory than either alone.

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