Medical Review Policy

Scope: Pause Moment is a behavioral tool

Pause Moment is an Android app that locks the screen with a photo and a short message for a duration the user sets. It is a behavioral tool. It is not a medical device, a regulated digital therapeutic, or a diagnostic instrument. It is not cleared by the FDA, the MHRA, or any other regulator as a treatment for ADHD, depression, anxiety, or any other clinical condition.

Content on pause-moment.com that discusses ADHD, antidepressants, or related conditions is informational. The site cites peer-reviewed research where claims touch on mechanisms or outcomes, but the goal is to help readers understand the research, not to give clinical guidance.

No clinical claims

The site does not assert clinical claims. Specifically:

• No diagnostic statements ("you have ADHD if...", "this means you have...").
• No treatment recommendations ("take your medication at...", "stop taking...", "switch to...").
• No dosing schedules, tapering protocols, or missed-dose recovery instructions.
• No claims that Pause Moment treats, cures, prevents, or mitigates any medical condition.
• No claims that Pause Moment is equivalent to or substitutes for clinical care.

Where readers ask the kind of question that would warrant clinical input, content directs them to a prescribing clinician, a pharmacist, or an authoritative source (NIH, NHS, the prescribing-information label, a Cochrane review). The site does not attempt to answer questions that belong with a clinician.

Sourcing standards for medical-adjacent content

Where content references a medical or behavioral mechanism, it cites peer-reviewed research or an authoritative health body (NIH, NHS, CDC, FDA, MHRA, Cochrane, JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, JMIR, PubMed-indexed journals). Inline attribution appears within 300 characters of every cited claim. A Sources section appears at the bottom of every article that makes medical-adjacent claims.

Mechanism-based reasoning is preferred over outcome claims. Where the research shows that scheduled friction reduces impulsive phone-checking in healthy adults, the article reports that finding accurately and does not extend it to a clinical outcome it did not test. Where the research is mixed, the article reports the mix.

Diagnostic language ("symptoms", "disorder", "deficit") is used only when quoting or paraphrasing research that itself uses that language. Where a clinical term has a colloquial meaning that differs, the article uses the clinical meaning and notes the distinction.

Reviewer disclosure

All medical-adjacent content on pause-moment.com is reviewed by Ezra Halevi, founder of Pause Moment. Ezra is not a clinician. He does not hold a medical degree, a nursing credential, a clinical psychology license, or any equivalent qualification. Review consists of verifying that cited research is real, attribution is accurate, claims do not exceed the evidence, and clinical questions are routed to clinicians rather than answered on the site.

Where clinical expertise is required to answer a reader's question, the content links to an authoritative source (NIH, NHS, prescribing information, a peer-reviewed review article) rather than asserting clinical authority the reviewer does not have. The site does not publish content that requires clinical judgment to be authored, only content that summarizes and contextualizes existing clinical and behavioral research.

The site does not employ a medical-doctor reviewer. This is an explicit editorial choice (documented in the Editorial Policy review history): the authority signal is research citation density and accuracy, not a clinician byline. Where future content requires clinical review beyond what citation-based editing provides, the site will either commission that review or decline to publish.

Correction policy for medical-adjacent claims

Errors in medical-adjacent content are treated as a higher-stakes correction class than other editorial errors. Where a cited statistic, a research finding, or a mechanism description is wrong, the correction is made the same day the error is identified. A visible "Correction" line is added below the affected paragraph with the date and a brief description of the change.

Where an error in medical-adjacent content has been live for an extended period, the correction is logged in a site-wide corrections record (planned for a future revision of this policy) so that downstream citations of the page can be alerted if needed.

Readers can report suspected errors to [email protected]. Reports involving medical claims are reviewed within 48 hours.

Review cadence

This policy is reviewed every 30 days. The "Last reviewed" timestamp at the top of the page reflects the most recent review. Material changes are logged at the bottom of this section with a date.

Last reviewed: 2026-05-22. Next scheduled review: 2026-06-21.