When you become aware that someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse and violence, the most pressing question, the one that will not go away, is why they don’t simply leave. That, according to our four experts, is to misunderstand, or to simply not see, quite what coercive control actually looks like.

These scholars unpack the mechanism by which an abuser grooms then threatens their victim, the fear they instil making their threats credible, the practical barriers to leaving, and the profound psychological forces at play in simply making the decision to go. Stigma and shame at the abuse are compounded by feelings of love and care for the abuser, in a way that confounds the victim as much as it does any witness to their situation.

Elsewhere, an infectious diseases specialist hails the arrival of ARCoV, China’s promising contribution to the mRNA COVID vaccine cohort. And a neuroimmunologist delves into new evidence showing that – in mice, for now – there is a link between circadian disruption and Alzheimer’s disease. Could more carefully protected sleep patterns also protect us from the condition?

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