May 18, 2026
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“From 2 August 2026, an AI tool that infers emotion in the workplace or classroom is not "controversial" in the EU — it is illegal.”