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2025-08-26 | RESEARCH

A 40-second and a 28-minute TMS session showed no significant difference in Y-BOCS change in OCD

Fifteen sessions add up to seven hours of stimulation in one arm and ten minutes in the other, with Y-BOCS falling in both.

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2026-08-09 | RESEARCH

In a small pilot, heart-rate variability in OCD rose later after pleasant videos

In this sample, heart-rate variability rose after pleasant videos in healthy controls and only toward the end of the session in people with OCD.

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2026-03-30 | TOOL

A 12-item daily text-message survey asks people with OCD how they feel, not only how often

The scale asks how often, and then what the person felt: anxiety, guilt, helplessness, disgust and burden, after obsessions and after compulsions.

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2026-09-17 | INDUSTRY

NICE draft guideline replaces the OCD treatment ladder with matched care

The draft does not promise a shorter queue. It asks that the first offer be decided by the person's clinical picture and preference, and that the wait be explained.

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RESEARCH8
RESEARCH
A 40-second and a 28-minute TMS session showed no significant difference in Y-BOCS change in OCD
Fifteen sessions add up to seven hours of stimulation in one arm and ten minutes in the other, with Y-BOCS falling in both.
CNS Spectrums · 2025-08-26Read →
RESEARCH
In a small pilot, heart-rate variability in OCD rose later after pleasant videos
In this sample, heart-rate variability rose after pleasant videos in healthy controls and only toward the end of the session in people with OCD.
Brain Sciences · 2026-08-09Read →
RESEARCH
Omega-3 capsules and placebo did not separate in a 135-person European trial of teenagers at risk of psychosis
In this trial, six months of omega-3 capsules did not change the rate of transition to psychosis or symptom severity compared with placebo in young people at ultra-high risk.
Schizophrenia Bulletin · 2024-10-25Read →
RESEARCH
Two weeks of delivered meals, and a depression score that fell
When a client says a change in eating has lifted their mood, ask what else changed that week: who became involved, how the day is structured and what they expected.
Scientific Reports · 2026-04-25Read →
RESEARCH
Placebo arms in acute schizophrenia trials improve, plateau and sometimes worsen
In 6 of the 48 placebo arms, the PANSS Total score ended above its baseline value.
Schizophrenia Bulletin · 2025-03-19Read →
RESEARCH
One tocilizumab infusion for depression that antidepressants had not moved
For the client who has tried everything, persistent fatigue and bodily heaviness may be a prompt to ask about inflammation rather than to change the antidepressant again.
JAMA Psychiatry · 2026-05-20Read →
RESEARCH
A Bigger Surprise During Exposure Doesn't Buy a Better Outcome
The exposure worked. The theory about why did not.
Behaviour Research and Therapy · 2026-08-28Read →
RESEARCH
Adults with Autism Learn a Better Bet Just as Fast, Their Pupils Pay a Different Price
Learning to choose well and paying a physiological price for it are not the same outcome, and only one of them shows up on a behavioral checklist.
Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience · 2024-11-19Read →
CLINICAL TOOL5
TOOL
A 12-item daily text-message survey asks people with OCD how they feel, not only how often
The scale asks how often, and then what the person felt: anxiety, guilt, helplessness, disgust and burden, after obsessions and after compulsions.
JMIR Formative Research · 2026-03-30Read →
TOOL
Nutritional deficiency in 111 Russian patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and what travelled with it
In 111 patients with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, nutritional deficiency or risk was found in 31 and went with chewing and swallowing problems and with depression.
Журнал неврологии и психиатрии им. С.С. Корсакова · 2025-12Read →
TOOL
Compassion focused therapy and prolonged exposure compared in 41 adults with complex PTSD
In this trial, symptom reduction in complex PTSD did not differ between CFT and prolonged exposure, so the choice can rest on what the client can tolerate and is ready for.
Revista de Psicopatología y Psicología Clínica · 2025Read →
TOOL
A Jumping-to-Conclusions Test Finds a Narrower Signature in Adolescent Depression
The depressed adolescents in this study did not jump to conclusions the way psychotic patients do - they lowered the bar only when the decision was already easy.
Journal of Psychiatric Research · 2026-05-20Read →
TOOL
A Biomarker for Who Exposure Will Actually Work On
COreactivity could be used as a screening tool to determine whether an individual may be a good candidate for CET or a retrieval-extinction-based approach.
Addiction Biology · 2026-01-22Read →
INDUSTRY9
INDUSTRY
NICE draft guideline replaces the OCD treatment ladder with matched care
The draft does not promise a shorter queue. It asks that the first offer be decided by the person's clinical picture and preference, and that the wait be explained.
NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) · 2026-09-17Read →
INDUSTRY
Over 90% of German adults with OCD say they would do exposure therapy, and half of those with CBT had it
In this sample, stated willingness was high: over 90% said they would do ERP if nothing stood in the way, and the barriers respondents named most were external.
BMC Psychiatry · 2025-03-11Read →
INDUSTRY
China's draft rules for probiotic supplements ask for a strain number and a live count
The draft requires a strain number and a live count for every probiotic health food. It says nothing about mood.
State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China · 2026-07-24Read →
INDUSTRY
A European psychiatry paper puts diet first and never mentions the gut
Nutritional support must be extended to both patients and families.
European Psychiatry (European Psychiatric Association) · 2025-11-18Read →
INDUSTRY
German group basic care grows fast and its regulator cannot say why
G-BA's own reading of its figures: the descriptive analyses cannot show whether basic group care leads patients into group therapy.
Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss (G-BA) · 2026-05-05Read →
INDUSTRY
Medicare now lets clinicians bill for antidepressant tapering, and leaves the taper itself undefined
CMS has agreed to pay for the taper, but it names no protocol for it. The clinician still has to write the plan.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) · 2026-05-04Read →
INDUSTRY
Wellcome Funds UK Regulators to Build an AI Testing Sandbox for Mental Health Apps
Regulators are building a faster lane for AI risk-screening tools, not a separate track for the computational biomarkers that gave the field its name.
GOV.UK · 2025-11-27Read →
INDUSTRY
FDA Convenes First Advisory Committee on Generative AI Therapy Chatbots
A supervised trainee who drifts into pure validation gets corrected in the next case conference. A chatbot deployed at scale drifts the same way with nobody in the room to notice.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration · 2025-11-06Read →
INDUSTRY
Rescripting a Memory Works Better When You Wake It Up First
Integrating ImRS with post-retrieval extinction may offer a novel therapeutic pathway for reducing fear relapse.
Cognition & Emotion · 2026-07-05Read →
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RESOURCE
An Indian OCD guideline puts a number on an adequate trial
The guideline counts a trial as adequate at 12 weeks of an SSRI or 12–20 sessions of exposure and response prevention.
Indian Journal of Psychiatry · 2026-01-27Read →
RESOURCE
A Canadian health service gives clinicians ready sentences for talking about food
Eating well is one part of managing your (insert mental health condition), along with other treatments your healthcare provider may have suggested.
Alberta Health Services (Canada), Nutrition Services, Professional Education and Practice · 2024-06Read →
RESOURCE
A Russian ethics code tells the client before session one that online therapy may leak
Before the first online session the therapist tells the client that confidentiality cannot be guaranteed at the in-person level, and agrees in advance who bears the cost of a technical failure.
Общероссийская Профессиональная Психотерапевтическая Лига (ОППЛ) · 2026Read →
RESOURCE
A podcast episode turns computational psychiatry into something you can say to a patient
Hoover's sign is not a trick to catch a faker - it is precision-weighting, visible at the bedside.
PsyDactic (podcast) · 2025-03-20Read →

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