Health & Training · Week of September 24, 2026
Regulation, sequencing, AI cognition, and care basics in mental health
- AI Assistance Reshapes Skill Development, Belief Updating, and Cognitive OwnershipTwo experiments from the same year, both well-powered, both asking whether AI makes people worse at thinking, reach opposite conclusions.
- Regulatory and Reimbursement Maze Surrounds Ketamine and Psychedelic-Assisted TherapiesAustralia made history in 2023 when it became the first country to allow MDMA and psilocybin to be prescribed for psychiatric conditions. The milestone is real. So is the fact that, three years later, a psychiatrist in M…
- Treatment-Resistant Depression as a Dynamic Continuum, Not a Single LabelThe most common mistake in treating depression is thinking of resistance as a switch that flips after a second failed prescription. The specialists who gathered in Boston on December 6, 2025, for a consensus panel on mec…
- Schizophrenia Care Moves Beyond Acute Symptoms Toward Psychotherapy and Early InterventionThe guidance and the ground-level reality do not match. In "Back to Basics: The Latest on Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders," a 2026 SAMHSA-backed review, psychotherapy is treated as a core component of care, with cogniti…
- Psychologists Return to Basics and Direct Intervention Amid System StrainThe thing most people get wrong about the current strain on psychology is that they assume a strained system needs more sophisticated solutions. More platforms, more measurement, more AI. The field's own practitioners ar…
Threads we are following
- Whether Shaw and Nave's hidden-accuracy preprint survives peer review, especially its 40-point confidence-performance gap.
- Whether Congress will include VA funding for psychedelic therapy in fiscal year 2027 appropriations.
- Whether the Boston consensus panel's continuum model will be adopted into formal TRD criteria and sequencing guidance.
- Whether extended coordinated specialty care beyond two years can prevent functional gains from fading after transition to usual care.
- Whether the field's sophisticated tools will be aimed at the basics or around them.
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