TL;DR: A 2026 service-mapping study in BJPsych Bulletin found that community forensic mental health services (CFMHS), specialist teams for people with mental disorder and serious risk histories, still vary widely across England in structure, referral access, staffing, and crisis coverage. Key Findings 32 services responded: Researchers received data from 32 CFMHS after sending Freedom of …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Social Psychology found that a female professor and a male professor produced almost identical obedience in a modern Milgram-style replication, suggesting professional authority mattered more than the authority figure’s gender. Key Findings Authority gender: 88% of participants obeyed every instruction from a female professor, versus 90% with a male professor. …
TL;DR: A 2026 cross-sectional study in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness found that 159 of 230 Farsi-speaking refugees in German refugee camps screened at high risk for depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms, while resilience, psychological flexibility, meaning in life, and social support also predicted posttraumatic growth. Key Findings High distress was common: 159 of …
TL;DR: A 2026 retrospective case series study in European Journal of Psychotraumatology found that trauma flashbacks during esketamine nasal spray sessions were distressing but usually time-limited in 22 patients with treatment-resistant depression and PTSD; when treatment continued, depression response was 45.5% and PTSD improvement was 45.5%. Key Findings 22-patient case series: Researchers reviewed adults with …
TL;DR: A 2026 review in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment argued that electroacupuncture (EA), acupuncture delivered with small electrical stimulation, has depression-related mechanism evidence, but clinical trials need biomarker-guided patient groups, standardized stimulation dose, and objective outcomes before EA can be treated as precision depression care. Key Findings Clinical evidence remains uneven: some randomized trials and …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Health Science Reports found that metoclopramide and several antipsychotics were strongly overrepresented in FDA adverse-event reports for drug-induced dystonia, with many reported cases appearing within the first month after drug initiation. Key Findings 28,938 dystonia reports: Researchers analyzed FDA Adverse Event Reporting System records from the first quarter of 2004 …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Consciousness and Cognition found that waking mind wandering and nighttime dreaming had nearly the same density of bizarre elements, even though dreams were more likely to be rated as bizarre whole reports. Key Findings 379 experience reports: Researchers analyzed daily audio descriptions of one dream and one waking mind-wandering episode …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Epigenetics found that DNA methylation clocks, which estimate biological aging from chemical marks on DNA, gave substantially older age estimates in saliva than in two blood-derived samples from 91 early-to-mid-adult participants. Key Findings The sample included 91 adults: Researchers analyzed participants from a twin and sibling study with a mean …
TL;DR: A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis in European Journal of Psychotraumatology found that phase-based therapy was not clearly better than non-phase-based therapy for most complex PTSD outcomes, although multi-phase treatment had stronger PTSD effects and phase/exposure-based approaches improved affect dysregulation more. Key Findings Sixteen randomized trials were included: Researchers reviewed psychological interventions for complex …
TL;DR: A 2026 study in Neuropsychopharmacology Reports found that repeated cigarette smoking and quitting shifted clozapine metabolism in one Japanese man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia, with the dose-adjusted clozapine level falling during smoking periods. Key Findings One patient was followed across five periods: Researchers tracked a Japanese man in his 40s across smoking, quitting, smoking, quitting, …
