June 11, 2026
“A neural marker that shifts with the task in front of the participant, but not with how well they perform it, is hard to defend as a stable trait of the person.”
“When you pool a decade of contradictory scans and keep only what replicates, the gaming-disorder signal is not in the reward striatum – it is in the frontal-midline circuitry of control and self-monitoring.”
“Two people of the same age can have very different brains – and it is the brain's age, not the birthday, that tracks how much chronic pain hurts.”
“Socially anxious children did not over-respond to faces – they under-encoded them, suggesting the mechanism begins at perception, not appraisal.”
“The SDQ's architecture holds from preschool to late adolescence – but a "restless" four-year-old and a "restless" sixteen-year-old are not the same score.”
“None of the ten projects the state itself forecast would open by the end of 2025 had opened – a $6.4 billion bond that is "exceeding its goals" on paper has yet to deliver a single new community bed on schedule.”