RESEARCHWhen the Body Counts Its Own Heartbeats: How We Measure Interoception Falls Apart Under Scrutiny
A neural marker that shifts with the task in front of the participant, but not with how well they perform it, is hard to defend as a stable trait of the person.
Scientific Reports · 2025-10-14Read → RESEARCHWhat Actually Replicates in the Gaming-Disorder Brain: Frontal-Midline Connectivity, Meta-Analysed and Validated
When you pool a decade of contradictory scans and keep only what replicates, the gaming-disorder signal is not in the reward striatum – it is in the frontal-midline circuitry of control and self-monitoring.
Addictive Behaviors Reports · 2026-05-02Read → RESEARCHAn Older-Looking Brain Tracks Worse Chronic Pain – But Placebo Still Works
Two people of the same age can have very different brains – and it is the brain's age, not the birthday, that tracks how much chronic pain hurts.
RESEARCHNeutral faces, threatened brains: how social anxiety reshapes face processing in childhood
Socially anxious children did not over-respond to faces – they under-encoded them, suggesting the mechanism begins at perception, not appraisal.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · 2025-08-04Read → RESEARCHThe Visual Cortex as the Source of Trauma Intrusions: Causal Evidence from TMS and fMRI
Intrusions may be less a failure of the brain's alarm system than the reinstatement of a stubbornly stable image in the visual cortex itself.
Psychological Medicine · 2026-05-11Read → RESEARCHWhich Schemas Carry Childhood Adversity into Therapist Burnout
Burnout in therapists with adverse histories ran not through feeling flawed, but through never being allowed to stop performing or to have needs of one's own.
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · 2025-07-01Read → RESEARCHTighter Threat Circuits at Rest: The Largest Map of Amygdala-Hippocampus Connectivity in PTSD
PTSD at rest is not a fear system that switches off and fails – it is a fear-and-memory circuit that never fully lets go of itself.
American Journal of Psychiatry · 2026-04-02Read → RESEARCHThe Mother as Template: How Attachment Style Shapes the Internal Image of Partner and Family
Attachment insecurity did not rewrite where patients came from – it rewrote how they saw the family they were building, and pulled the partner toward the shape of the mother.
Psychology in Russia: State of the Art · 2025-12-15Read → RESEARCHWhen fullness fails to quiet the brain: a reward-feedback signature of food addiction
Fullness silenced the healthy brain's pursuit of food; in food addiction, it amplified it – the off-switch did not fire.
RESEARCHTwo Fears, Two Brains: Why "Fear of Fear" and "Fear of the Unknown" Drive Avoidance Through Separate Circuits
"Fear of fear" and "fear of the unknown" are not two dials on the same anxious brain – they drive avoidance through separate circuits, at separate moments of decision.
Molecular Psychiatry · 2026-05-27Read → RESEARCHSelf-Injury in Epilepsy: Not the Severe Subgroup Clinicians Assume
Comorbid epilepsy did not make self-injurers sicker – it pointed to a different road to the same behavior.
Epilepsy & Behavior · 2026-03-19Read → RESEARCHHow Cohesion Builds in an Online Therapy Group: A Word-Level Map of Process
Cohesion is not a switch the group flips; it is the yield on relational investment made weeks earlier – and in an online group, that runway may simply be longer.
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy · 2025-08-26Read → RESEARCHThe circuit that makes accelerated TMS work: a fronto-insular pathway, mapped from mouse to human
Accelerated TMS does not just wake up the prefrontal cortex – it recruits a prefrontal-to-insula circuit that is necessary and sufficient for the antidepressant effect.
RESEARCHWhen the screen is the room: which part of the alliance still carries the work
Online, the alliance still carries the work – but it carries it through agreement on tasks and goals, not through the warmth of the bond.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology · 2026-04-01Read → RESEARCHWhen Mood and Memory Share a Lesion: Amygdalar and Thalamic Substrates of Late-Life Vascular Depression
In vascular late-life depression, mood and memory are not comorbid – they are two readouts of one amygdalar lesion.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2026-03-30Read → RESEARCHLate-Life Depression Splits Into Four Biological Subtypes – and Each Responds Differently to Treatment
A failed antidepressant in an older patient is more often the wrong drug for the right biology than a resistant illness – and the difference may be visible in a baseline blood panel.
Gerontology (Karger) · 2025-10-24Read → RESEARCHMapping the Off-Switch: Personalized Brain Targets for Refractory OCD
The advance is not a new target but a new question – not "where do we stimulate for OCD," but "where, in this particular brain, does the symptom signal live, and which site switches it off."
Translational Psychiatry · 2025-10-31Read →