About Unmasked

What we publish

Unmasked By MindedSouls is a newsletter about psychology, mental health and neuroscience. Each topic runs as a series of short parts, and every part answers one question: what the condition is, how it starts or spreads, who it affects, and what the research can and cannot show.

Past series have covered sleep paralysis, OCD, misophonia, Capgras delusion, shared psychosis, moral injury, eating disorders, rage and arson. The current series looks at mass hysteria.

How we write it

• In our research series, every figure and claim is traced to a published source: peer-reviewed journals, government health agencies or the primary record itself.
• Sources are read in full and checked against the article before it is published, not taken from summaries or other articles.
• Where the research is uncertain or disputed, we say so.