PSYREFLECT

Issue #42

May 28, 2026

#1Research

The Mind Behind the Face Pain: Alexithymia and Cognitive Slowing in Trigeminal Neuralgia

Severe facial pain is treated as a surgical wiring fault, but the patient who lives with it often cannot name what they feel — and that, not the vessel, is what the therapist meets.

alexithymiachronic paininteroceptionneuropsychology
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#2Research

When Two Brains Fail to Sync: A Neural Marker of Social Difficulty in Autistic Preschoolers

Autistic social difficulty here is not a fault inside one brain but a failure of two brains to couple — which makes the dyad, not the child, the proper target of assessment and intervention.

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#3Research

Mapping 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."

OCDdeep brain stimulationneuromodulationcortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit
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#4Research

When the Patient Hears the Words but Not the Meaning: Novel-Metaphor Failure Along the Schizotypy Continuum

A patient can pass every worn-out idiom and still be unable to build a single fresh metaphor — and it is the fresh ones that conversation, therapy, and recovery actually require.

schizotypymetaphorfigurative languageschizophrenia spectrum
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#5Tool

A Six-Item Screener Outperforms the MDQ for Bipolar Depression in Adolescents

A six-item screen that out-discriminates the MDQ buys you the one thing that matters in adolescent depression — a reason to ask about hypomania before you reach for the prescription pad.

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#6Industry

UNESCO Sets the First Global Standard for Neurotechnology Ethics — and It Reaches Into Your Consulting Room

Soft law writes the vocabulary before hard law writes the rules — and mental privacy has just entered the global lexicon as a right worth protecting.

neurorightsmental privacyneurotechnologyethics
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