PSYREFLECT

Issue #47

June 15, 2026

#1Research

Parental Burnout Outweighs Postpartum Depression as an Early Risk Signal in Toddlers

A clear postpartum depression screen does not rule out a parent in sustained burnout whose toddler is already showing the behavioral signal.

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#2Research

A specialised striatum, a generalised insula: an edge-centric map of the alcohol-dependent brain

Alcohol dependence does not simply weaken the reward circuit – it makes the striatum too specialised and the insula too diffuse, a redistribution anchored to dopamine and glutamate receptor maps.

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#3Research

The Common Signature of a Psychedelic Brain: A Mega-Analysis Resolves a Decade of Contradiction

The reliable psychedelic signature is not the brain dissolving into noise – it is a specific, directional binding of high-level association networks to raw sensory cortex, with the thalamus and striatum joining in.

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#4Research

When mindfulness is not the mechanism: what actually drives change in OCD

Mindfulness-based treatment helped patients with OCD, yet measured mindfulness did not change and did not explain the gains; the work was done by a shift in how imagined possibilities were treated as real.

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#5Tool

One Factor, Not Four: Validating the Modified Marijuana Craving Questionnaire in Spanish

The four-factor model of cannabis craving did not survive the data; what remained was a single, cleaner number a clinician can actually track.

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#6Industry

An open standard arrives for testing whether AI chatbots are safe in suicide-risk conversations

The automated grader agreed with the clinician consensus at a reliability of 0.81 – marginally higher than the clinicians agreed among themselves, which is what makes scoring thousands of crisis conversations feasible.

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