May 14, 2026
“When a patient cannot tell idiom from literal at the N400 stage, every metaphor we offer in session is a wager — confirm uptake before you build on it.”
“OCD-related suicidality is a salience-network problem before it is a hopelessness problem — and it leaves a fingerprint on resting EEG that machine learning can read at 66% accuracy even within the disorder.”
“Ketamine's address in the brain is not "the NMDA receptor" — it is a mu-opioid receptor on a somatostatin interneuron in the medial prefrontal cortex, and that address is now drawn on the map.”
“Surface failure on figurative language looks the same in autism and dyslexia, but the mechanism differs — and so should the intervention target.”
“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.”
“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.”