Archive
All Research
Every study covered so far — 27 summaries, newest first. Each one links back to the original paper so you can verify it yourself.
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Assessment
Does the PTSD checklist catch symptom exaggeration across cultures?
115 contractors were evaluated to test whether a common PTSD measure works outside Western populations.
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Treatment
Cognitive training in mandated treatment
A 10-session group program combining cognitive and goal-management training, tested with 35 participants before and after.
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Treatment
Crying in therapy predicts better outcomes
Across 58 patients, those who cried more intensely and longer in early sessions reported better results later.
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Neuroscience
Finding the brain basis of BPD identity disturbance
Researchers studied identity disturbance as early as possible — before medication or comorbidity could muddy the picture.
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Genetics
Schizophrenia genetics beyond European ancestry
Most schizophrenia genetics has studied European populations. This study set out to close a major gap in the science.
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Psychosis
Why some people hear voices: testing the inner-speech theory
A long-standing but hard-to-prove idea about how the brain fails to recognize its own inner speech, finally put to the test.
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Neuroscience
Brain chemistry differences across anxiety disorders
25 brain-imaging studies pooled to compare choline and other chemical levels across social, generalized, and panic anxiety.
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Neuroscience
How early-life stress rewires the gut
A mouse model of maternal separation traced the actual mechanism linking early stress to long-term digestive problems.
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Psychopharmacology
What GLP-1 drugs do to depression and anxiety
Swedish records for ~100,000 people compared periods when the same individuals were and weren't taking GLP-1 medications.
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Psychedelics
Can a single dose of psilocybin help people quit cocaine?
A randomized controlled trial tested psilocybin plus structured psychotherapy for a disorder with no approved medications.
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Treatment
Virtual reality art therapy for borderline personality disorder
Eight participants completed four weekly VR-based art sessions, with wellbeing measured throughout. A small pilot, not proof.
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Assessment
A new 14-item scale for antisocial personality disorder
The SEPBA-APD aims to bridge categorical and dimensional approaches to diagnosing ASPD.
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Psychosis
Two low-cost interventions for grandiose delusions
Indonesian nurse-researchers tested simple non-pharmacological approaches in a single case of schizophrenia with grandiose delusions.
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Neuroscience
Is the thalamus different in schizoaffective disorder?
Detailed imaging broke the thalamus into sub-regions across schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and healthy controls.
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Neuroscience
Pinpointing where autism and schizophrenia genes switch on
A preprint mapping risk-gene activity to specific brain regions, not just broad cell types. Not yet peer-reviewed.
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Forensic
What separates forensic from general psychiatric patients with schizophrenia?
Machine learning compared the two groups to find what actually distinguishes them — beyond the offense itself.
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Stigma
What drives stigma against tattooed people?
An Ecuadorian survey used factor analysis to unpack how tattoo stigma operates, especially within the justice system.
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Genetics
A million genomes reveal what mental illnesses share
Rather than treating diagnoses as separate boxes, this study mapped the genetic architecture connecting them beneath the surface.
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Trauma
What a violent hostage incident did to responders' mental health
Six months on, 192 police special forces and emergency personnel were assessed for quality of life and psychological impact.
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Training
Do demonstration videos actually teach therapy skills?
123 psychology students were randomized to watch a video or reread the text — with a clear winner for learning technique.
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Diagnosis
Can machine learning tell bipolar disorder from BPD?
Five studies, 591 participants: models beat traditional methods, but were far better at spotting bipolar than borderline.
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Neuroscience
The BPD brain is less flexible — and more variable
fMRI comparing 47 women with BPD to 28 controls found altered brain dynamics tied to childhood trauma and emotion dysregulation.
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Personality
Who drops out of DBT — and who improves?
Following 85 people through a DBT program, personality dimensions predicted both improvement and dropout better than symptoms alone.
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Neurodevelopmental
Kids with ADHD and autism face far higher mental-health risk
Across 14,000+ young people, those with neurodevelopmental disorders were 3 to 15 times more likely to also have anxiety, depression, or behavioral conditions.
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Personality
Cluster B personality disorders: what they are and what actually helps
A review of borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic PD — their origins, the therapies with real evidence, and why culture shapes both.
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Trauma
How many teens develop PTSD after an earthquake?
A survey of 234 adolescents found most were resilient — but a meaningful minority showed real distress, with hyperarousal the most common symptom.
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Trauma
Childhood trauma is the norm, not the exception, in prison psychiatric care
Records from 3,400+ adults in Dutch prison psychiatry found over half of men and nearly two-thirds of women had repeated trauma before 18.