PSYREFLECT

Issue #74

September 17, 2026

#1Research

Sleep and suicide share a title but not a table

Sleep enters Table 1, suicidal ideation Table 3 and past attempts Table 4, and no table in the paper holds two of them.

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#2Research

Nightmares receded on dronabinol and the wider PTSD signal did not survive correction

Ten weeks of a nightly dose moved the nightmare score 1.5 points further than placebo, while the clinician-rated PTSD total and the depression scale did not survive the correction the authors themselves applied.

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#3Tool

A sleep protocol for serious mental illness that community clinic staff deliver in four 20-minute sessions

Four 20-minute sessions, delivered by community centre staff of whom no prior training in sleep treatment was asked.

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#4Industry

Japan's sleep guide cites cohorts for its mental-health claim and lists two sleep trials that measured depression

Japan's sleep guide says that sleep problems themselves raise the risk of mental disorders, cites prospective cohorts for it, and cites a sleep trial that also measured depression as a source for advice on time in bed.

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#5Industry

France could not establish the benefit of a digital insomnia therapy, which is not the same as finding none

HAS could not attribute the fall in insomnia scores to the app with certainty, and a benefit that cannot be established from a file is a different finding from a benefit shown to be absent.

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#6Resource

Depression in the rationale, insomnia as the target

The risk argument names depression and anxiety, while the grade A recommendation names chronic insomnia.

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