PSYREFLECT

Issue #73

September 14, 2026

#1Research

The interoception scale moved and the registered outcome did not

Eight 75-minute sessions changed how these patients rated their attention to their own bodies more than they changed anything else measured, and left the abstinence figure the registry named as primary sitting where medication alone had already put it.

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#2Research

The arm that received no sessions

Low-frequency power at rest read 1854 ± 1117 ms² in the biofeedback arm against 403 ± 374 ms² in the control arm at the end of the course, and 785 ± 752 against 838 ± 953 four weeks after the last session.

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#3Tool

A Moscow biofeedback protocol printed down to the threshold that counts as success

Success in the session was defined before the session: a rise of at least 15% in mean alpha power over the 45–60 seconds of background just recorded.

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#4Industry

A wellbeing claim on the website, a medical claim on the feed

The website says wellbeing and the feed says the product reduces the risk of depression, and the MHRA reads both when deciding whether that product is a medical device.

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#5Industry

India's five-minute workplace protocol and the 717 people it was tried on

868,094 people completed the course, and the trial behind the protocol ran on 717 people for fifteen days, single arm, with a questionnaire they filled in about themselves as its outcome.

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#6Resource

Specified to the second and measured out of a hundred

The seconds are printed, the thresholds are printed, and the number that comes back at the end of a task is a rating of fear out of 100.

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