PSYREFLECT

Issue #53

July 6, 2026

#1Research

The autistic adult brain keeps the lights on: how uncertainty is handled differently

Autistic adults reached the right decision as efficiently as anyone – but their brains never stopped working as hard to get there.

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#2Research

Three emotional faces of adult ADHD, and the amygdala circuit that separates them

The brain signature of emotion dysregulation in adult ADHD appeared not in the most impaired patients but in the moderate middle, hinting that it is a circuit configuration rather than a simple severity dial.

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#3Research

The Autistic Brain Ages on a Different Schedule: A Fluid-Clearance Biomarker for Memory Decline

Memory difficulty in an autistic adult may not be a fixed trait but the visible end of a fluid-clearance cascade that begins in the brain's plumbing.

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#4Research

Five Sensory Profiles, Five Wiring Patterns: Mapping the Mechanism of Sensory Reactivity in Autism

The model did not sort autistic brains from neurotypical ones – it sorted autistic people from one another by the wiring of their sensory worlds.

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#5Tool

The CAT-Q in a new culture: does "masking" survive the journey from London to Tehran?

A camouflaging score is only meaningful if the same number means the same thing in two different people, and this study is what earns the scale that right in Persian.

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#6Industry

Quarter of a Million Adults and Children Stuck in England's Autism Assessment Queue

When nine in ten people have already waited past the recommended interval, the standard is no longer measuring service quality – it is measuring how far the system has fallen behind.

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