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Filing this away as a very elegant example of how to reframe your negative findings as a positive contribution to knowledge. This study set out to test whether cognitive restructuring — a PTSD treatment modality — *changed* patterns of activation in a particular network of neural centres measured using fancy MRI (fMRI) methods. They found it did not! But a negative result never holds a good scientist down — instead they reported the study as if it were observational from the beginning, reporting that variations in the function of one particular centre in the network of interest predicted therapeutic outcomes. It's a little bit bait and switch but as I said it still represents a contribution to the literature on the psycho/neuro correlates of treatment success. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-026-00614-8