PSYREFLECT

Issue #49

June 22, 2026

#1Research

The Brake That Came Late: Cognitive Control in Adolescents Marked by Complex Trauma

The fracture of complex trauma may show up first not in identity but in the millisecond machinery of preparing, predicting and inhibiting.

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#2Research

When the brake on a memory is weak, a current to the prefrontal cortex tightens it

The clinical target here is not the memory itself but the failing brake that should have kept it out of mind.

memory suppressionsubthreshold depressiondorsolateral prefrontal cortextDCS
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#3Research

The Hippocampus Reads the Meaning of a Trauma, Not Just Its Outline

Severity did not rise as the hippocampus failed; it rose as the hippocampus encoded the meaning of the trauma more precisely.

PTSDtraumatic memoryhippocampusfMRI
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#4Research

The Mother's Workday in the Infant's Genome: How Prenatal Stress Leaves a Methylation Signature on Temperament

The transmissible mark here is not the catastrophe of folklore but the ordinary load of working through a pregnancy, registered in the infant's genome before the first birthday.

epigeneticsDNA methylationprenatal stressglucocorticoid receptor
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#5Tool

The 218-item map of a divided self: clinical validation of the Italian MID

A screening scale tells you that a patient dissociates; a multidimensional inventory tells you how, and only the second answer can be turned into a treatment plan.

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#6Industry

Two in five: a pooled estimate puts emotional exhaustion at the centre of clinician burnout

When two in five clinicians are emotionally exhausted, the finding indicts the workload before it indicts the worker.

burnoutemotional exhaustionclinician wellbeingmental health workforce
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