Tag: Mental Health

June 17, 2019

Social media use is contributing to poor mental health in Indonesia, research presented in a paper by Sujarwoto Sujarwoto, Gindo ...

Schizophrenia: Adolescence is the game-changer

June 17, 2019

Researchers at UNIGE have discovered that the development of the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory and ...

Can we still have fun if the UK goes carbon neutral?

June 14, 2019

Mainstream strategies generally address the challenge of reducing carbon by reviewing consumption, but a complementary approach looks at how people ...

The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds ‘sound’ words predict psychosis

A machine-learning method discovered a hidden clue in people's language predictive of the later emergence of psychosis A machine-learning method ...

Two hours a week is key dose of nature for health and wellbeing

Spending at least two hours a week in nature may be a crucial threshold for promoting health and wellbeing, according ...

Study shows ‘safety bubble’ expands during third trimester

Pregnant women increase peripersonal space to 'keep dangers at arm's length' New research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, shows ...

Formation of habitual use drives cannabis addiction

Individual differences in brain systems for habitual behavior distinguish heavy cannabis users who develop an addiction Philadelphia, June 13, 2019 ...

The app teaching anorexics to eat again

Weighing risks and benefits of drug treatment for major depression

Research summary from the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Depression is a common and serious problem for older adults. ...

Overdose, suicide among leading reasons for deaths of new moms

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Overdoses and suicides were among the most common reasons for mothers dying within a year of ...

$1.6 million NIH research grant supports study of VR to improve perspective taking in kids

Credit: School of Informatics and Computing Zebulun Wood, lecturer and co-director of the undergraduate Media Arts and Science program, will ...

IDIBELL-researchers negatively correlate a neuropeptide with executive functions

The researchers emphasize the potential role of this orexin in the global understanding of eating disorders and associated cognitive processesCredit: ...

Why fears over smartphone ‘addiction’ are based on flawed evidence

Credit: Lancaster University Most studies into the impact of technology use on psychological wellbeing rely on flawed measures say researchers. ...

Brain activation provides individual-level prediction of bipolar disorder risk

Activation patterns predicting mania symptom severity offer a potential neural biomarker to identify young people at risk for bipolar spectrum ...

UC researcher examines impact opioids and HIV have on each other

Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--A University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine researcher is trying to determine how opioids ...

New grant to support spanish language suicide and HIV/AIDs prevention training

A grant from the National Library of Medicine will support bilingual training on suicide and HIV/AIDs prevention.Credit: Burrell College of ...

Early life stress plus overexpressed FKBP5 protein increases anxiety behavior

A new preclinical study adds to mounting evidence about the interplay between genetics and environment in mental healthCredit: USF Health ...

Bringing mental health care into pediatricians’ offices works, finds 5-year study

Boston Children's Hospital program increased children's access to behavioral health services, with high pediatrician satisfaction A five-year study at Boston ...

Gender affects the correlation between depression and weight in children and adolescents

Three parent factors that heighten the prevalence of childhood physical abuse: New study