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2025-12-31 | RESEARCH

Two Conditions, One Stimulation Target: rTMS for Chronic Low Back Pain With Insomnia

Why treat pain and insomnia separately when a single brain target can address the shared circuit that maintains both?

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2026-01-01 | RESEARCH

Same IQ, Different Language: Russian Study Reveals Distinct Linguistic Profiles in Autism vs. Down Syndrome

Same IQ, different language. When you control for cognition, autism and Down syndrome reveal fundamentally different linguistic architectures.

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2026-02-16 | TOOL

Depression and Anxiety Look Identical on Symptom Scales — But Their Resilience Profiles Are Opposite

Depression collapses all coping. Anxiety exhausts it. Same symptom overlap, opposite resilience architecture, different treatment target.

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2025-12-01 | INDUSTRY

Russia's Psychiatric Reform Stalls: 25% Fewer Beds, But Community Services Haven't Followed

Closing hospital beds without opening community services is not deinstitutionalisation. It is abandonment with better optics.

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RESEARCH
Two Conditions, One Stimulation Target: rTMS for Chronic Low Back Pain With Insomnia
Why treat pain and insomnia separately when a single brain target can address the shared circuit that maintains both?
The Journal of Pain · 2025-12-31Read
RESEARCH
Same IQ, Different Language: Russian Study Reveals Distinct Linguistic Profiles in Autism vs. Down Syndrome
Same IQ, different language. When you control for cognition, autism and Down syndrome reveal fundamentally different linguistic architectures.
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders · 2026-01-01Read
RESEARCH
One in Three Young Offenders in Northern Russia Has Psychotic-Like Experiences — and They Predict Suicide Risk
In incarcerated adolescents, psychotic-like experiences are not curiosities. They are suicide risk markers that standard diagnostic categories miss.
Schizophrenia Research · 2025-12-29Read
RESEARCH
Training the Addicted Brain to Self-Regulate: EEG Neurofeedback Shows g = 0.85 Across 17 RCTs
Neurofeedback does not teach the addicted brain what to do differently. It teaches it how to regulate itself — and auditory feedback is the most effective channel.
Addiction · 2025-08-12Read
RESEARCH
Psilocybin for Depression: The First Meta-Analysis That Asks How, Not Just If
Seven RCTs confirm psilocybin works for depression. The next question is not whether to do it, but how to do it well — and the answer may be: take more time.
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews · 2026-01-24Read
RESEARCH
The First Pharmacotherapy With Real Evidence for Binge Eating: LDX Meta-Analysis Across 988 Patients
LDX does not just reduce binge eating. It reduces the obsessive preoccupation that makes the patient plan their next binge while still ashamed of the last one.
European Eating Disorders Review · 2025-12-21Read
RESEARCH
DBT or Schema Therapy for BPD? The Answer Depends on the Patient
"Which is better for BPD?" is the wrong question. "Which is better for this patient with BPD?" is the right one — and now we have data to help answer it.
Behaviour Research and Therapy · 2025-12-01Read
RESEARCH
When Pills Fail: Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression Finally Gets Its Meta-Analysis
Treatment-resistant depression is not therapy-resistant. The effect is modest, but for patients who have failed two medications, modest is meaningful.
Journal of Personalized Medicine · 2025-08-01Read
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Depression and Anxiety Look Identical on Symptom Scales — But Their Resilience Profiles Are Opposite
Depression collapses all coping. Anxiety exhausts it. Same symptom overlap, opposite resilience architecture, different treatment target.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2026-02-16Read
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Russia Gets Its Own ACE-10: Validated in Psychiatric Inpatients, and the Numbers Are Telling
146 million people. The most studied screening tool in modern mental health. And until 2025, no validated Russian version existed.
Консультативная психология и психотерапия (Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy) · 2025-06-01Read
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Screen for Depression Before Surgery in Older Adults: GDS-15 Predicts Postoperative Delirium (OR = 2.50)
A 5-minute depression screen before surgery could prevent postoperative delirium. The GDS-15 is the tool, and even subclinical scores matter.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2026-02-11Read
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Attachment Style Predicts Who Recovers From Psychosis — and Who Seeks Help in the First Place
Attachment style does not determine what therapy a psychosis patient needs. It determines whether they will stay long enough to receive it.
Mental Health Science · 2025-03-01Read
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INDUSTRY
Russia's Psychiatric Reform Stalls: 25% Fewer Beds, But Community Services Haven't Followed
Closing hospital beds without opening community services is not deinstitutionalisation. It is abandonment with better optics.
International Psychiatry (Cambridge) / Lancet Psychiatry / Psychiatric Times · 2025-12-01Read
INDUSTRY
Schema Therapy Breaks Free From BPD: The Transdiagnostic Expansion Into Eating Disorders, Chronic Depression, and Beyond
Schema therapy was built for BPD. It turns out what it actually treats is the developmental damage that BPD shares with eating disorders, chronic depression, and complex anxiety.
ISST / Cambridge Guide to Schema Therapy / Routledge · 2026-02-10Read
INDUSTRY
Russia Reclassifies Gambling Addiction: From September 2026, Treated on Par With Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Russia just moved gambling addiction from the moral domain to the medical one. The narcological system that treats alcoholism will now treat lottomania.
Rambler / МинЗдрав РФ · 2025-12-01Read
INDUSTRY
The Parent's Trauma Is in the Room: Caregiver ACEs Predict Whether Children Complete Trauma Therapy
We assess the child's trauma and the child's symptoms. But the parent's ACE score may determine whether the child finishes treatment.
Behavior Therapy · 2025-09-04Read
INDUSTRY
The Psychedelic Regulatory Map in 2026: Four US States, One Country, and a DEA Quota Boost
Four US states, one country with full medical access, and a DEA quota boost. The psychedelic therapy map in 2026 is not a single story — it is an experiment running in parallel.
Reason Foundation / Psychedelic Alpha · 2026-03-15Read
INDUSTRY
Only 1 in 10 Gets Treatment: The Eating Disorder Access Crisis Insurance Built
Eating disorders have the highest mortality of any psychiatric illness. And 90% of people who have them never receive treatment. This is not a clinical failure — it is a system designed to deny care.
Louisville Public Media / Psychiatric Services (APA) · 2025-05-13Read
INDUSTRY
The $477 Billion Invoice: What Untreated Mental Illness Costs the US Economy
Depression does not just cost quality of life. It costs $477.5 billion a year in one country. That is not a health statistic — it is an economic emergency.
Michigan Journal of Economics / Deloitte · 2025-04-04Read
INDUSTRY
iCBT Pays for Itself: Productivity Gains and Cost Savings in the Irish Health Service
When a national health service deploys iCBT and measures what happens to workforce productivity, the answer is: it pays for itself.
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2026-01-15Read
INDUSTRY
The Exodus Is Real: 93% of Behavioral Health Workers Have Experienced Burnout
The profession is losing people faster than it trains them. That is not a staffing problem — it is a system failure.
HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce · 2025-12-01Read
INDUSTRY
The VA Doubles Down on Trauma: $1.5 Billion for PTSD Residential Programs + Psychedelic Trials
The VA treats more PTSD than any healthcare system on Earth. Its $1.5 billion bet on intensive residential programs tells you where trauma treatment is heading.
US Department of Veterans Affairs · 2025-06-01Read
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Third-Wave Therapy Training Guide 2026: ACBS Lyon, ISST Online, and the Road to Hong Kong 2027
ACT works at the process level. Schema therapy works at the developmental level. Together, they cover more clinical territory than either alone.
ACBS / ISST / schematherapytraining.us · 2026-01-01Read
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PsyJournals.ru Top-20 Articles 2025 + Zeigarnick Readings: What Russian Clinical Psychology Is Studying Now
Want to know what Russian clinical psychology is actually studying? Not what gets filtered through Western indexes — what researchers are reading and citing. PsyJournals.ru is the answer.
PsyJournals.ru / МГППУ · 2026-01-15Read
RESOURCE
Eating Disorder Specialist Credentials: CEDS, CBT-E Training, and FBT Certification Paths
90% of eating disorder patients never receive treatment. The specialist workforce is too small. Every clinician who adds ED competency saves lives — and these training paths make it accessible.
IAEDP Foundation / NCEED / Train2Treat4Ed · 2026-01-01Read
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DBT-Linehan Board Certification: The Only Credential Endorsed by the Treatment Developer
Many clinicians say they "do DBT." One certification proves they actually do. The treatment developer endorses only this one.
DBT-Linehan Board of Certification / Behavioral Tech · 2026-01-01Read

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