A study in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors finds teens who have more demand for cannabis are likely to use it for enjoyment and coping. Understanding motives is important for addiction prevention.
Mental illness rates were 15.7% in the U.S., 17.6% in Australia and 13.8% in the U.K. in 2019. Yet, the U.S. had 10 times higher death rates from gun violence than Australia and 40 times higher death rates than the U.K.
Wayne State University Interim Vice President for Research Timothy Stemmler, Ph.D., announced today the university’s Board of Governors approved the creation of two research initiatives that aim to improve the health and lives of the Detroit community and beyond.
Pode ser uma surpresa para você, mas nem todo estresse é ruim. Níveis saudáveis de estresse ajudam a desenvolver resiliência, diz a cirurgiã Safia Debar, especialista em manejo do estresse na Mayo Clinic Healthcare em Londres.
Puede resultar sorprendente, pero desde el punto de vista médico, no todo el estrés es malo. Los niveles saludables de estrés ayudan a desarrollar la resiliencia, dice la licenciada en Medicina y Cirugía Safia Debar, experta en el manejo del estrés de Mayo Clinic Healthcare en Londres. En esta alerta para los expertos, la Dra. Debar explica la diferencia entre el estrés bueno y el estrés malo y cómo saber cuando está en peligro de sufrir una sobrecarga.
قد يكون من المدهش أن تسمع ذلك، ولكن من الناحية الصحية، فالإجهاد ليس كله ضار. فمستويات الإجهاد الصحي تُساعد على بناء المرونة، كما تقول الدكتورة سافيا ديبر، خبيرة علاج الإجهاد لدى مركز مايو كلينك هيلثكير في لندن. وفي تنبيه الخبيرة الدكتورة ديبر هذا، فإنها تشرح الفارق بين الإجهاد النافع والضار وكيف تعرف أنك تتعرض لخطر الإجهاد المفرط.
It's the moooost wonderful time...of the year! Are you looking for new story ideas that are focused on the winter holiday season? Perhaps you're working on a story on on managing stress and anxiety? Perhaps you're working on a story on seasonal affective disorder? Or perhaps your editor asked you to write a story on tracking Santa? Look no further. Check out the Winter Holidays channel.
A study funded by the ECHO Program at the National Institutes of Health suggests that maternal health during pregnancy may be linked to dysregulation in children, affecting attention, anxiety, depression, and aggression beyond typical expectations for their age.
JMIR Mental Health, a premier SCIE/PubMed/Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed journal with a unique focus on digital mental health, is inviting submissions to a new theme issue titled “Affective Computing for Mental Well-Being.”
A new study highlights how stigmatizing attitudes about individuals with acne may influence social and professional perceptions.
The number of unhoused individuals in Arizona jumped almost 25 percent from between 2020 and 2022 as safe, affordable housing disappeared throughout the state. This is a thorny, multifaceted issue, and one that health sciences researcher Sara Shuman is tackling as part of a federal effort to better understand and address homelessness throughout the nation. With a focus on health equity, Shuman and her team will document the needs and experiences of people living in encampments and evaluate the strategies use to manage homeless encampments in Yuma, Pima and Maricopa counties.
Most people with schizophrenia have extensive impairment of memory, including prospective memory, which is the ability to remember to perform future activities.
New research published in JCCP Advances indicates that experiencing negative life events (NLE) during childhood is linked with a higher risk of developing symptoms of depression during young adulthood. Thinning of the orbitofrontal cortex, a region in the brain that affects emotion, during adolescence was also associated with increased depressive symptoms later in life.
The holiday season is often an overwhelming experience for many individuals. The combination of gift shopping, travel arrangements, and the expected anxiety of family and friends can create very stressful situations. Virginia Tech psychologist Rosanna Breaux shares her most effective tips for navigating seasonal stress. “Planning and prioritizing what activities are the most important is a better strategy than exhaustingly trying to do everything and ending up not enjoying it,” says Breaux, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Tech.
Tips on navigating the holiday season stress while preserving your mental health.
A new UCLA Health study is shedding light on how using hormonal contraceptive pills may affect women’s responses to stress and their risk for inflammation-related illnesses.
Researchers at Flinders University and the University of South Australia examined whether attending an event virtually or in-person makes a difference to loneliness and social connectedness.
In some diseases, the underlying processes can start years before a diagnosis is made. A new study finds that people who later develop multiple sclerosis (MS) are more likely to have conditions like depression, constipation and urinary tract infections five years before their MS diagnosis than people who do not develop MS.
A study led by Melinda Tasca, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies at The University of Texas at El Paso, and published in Justice Quarterly, revealed a gender disparity in prison infractions that disproportionately affects women.
The ongoing mental health crisis is causing significant challenges for many psychologists as they grapple with demand fueled by patients presenting with increasingly severe symptoms year after year, according to APA’s 2023 Practitioner Pulse Survey.
A new paper in Innovation in Aging, published by Oxford University Press, shows that a great deal of media coverage of the actor Bruce Willis’ condition, frontotemporal degeneration, was inaccurate, revealing the public’s limited knowledge of the disease.
Johns Hopkins physicians can offer expert advice on how to have a healthy and safe holiday season.
For more than two decades, the Annenberg Public Policy Center has tracked the ways in which news organizations erroneously link the year-end holiday season with suicide, perpetuating the false holiday-suicide myth.
The joint study between the UNC School of Medicine and the Orange County Health Department has been awarded a $21 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to make pregnancy and birth safer for North Carolinians with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.
A novel screening tool helps to identify hospitalized trauma patients at high risk for later mental health problems, and an emotional recovery program for trauma patients is feasible, according to two studies published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered how Lactobacillus, a bacterium found in fermented foods and yogurt, helps the body manage stress and may help prevent depression and anxiety.
A new analysis of the brain activity of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the first to reveal that traumatic memories are represented in the brain in an entirely different way than sad autobiographical memories.
U.S. adults are feeling joyous but overwhelmed this holiday season, as nearly nine in 10 (89%) say that concerns such as not having enough money, missing loved ones and anticipating family conflict cause them stress at this time of year, according to the results of a new poll by the American Psychological Association.
A massive genetic study involving almost 800,000 participants has uncovered genetic factors that contribute to the use of sleep medications, shedding new light on the intricate relationship between sleep problems and psychiatric conditions.
New interview featuring University at Albany expert Sarah Domoff on the ways social media can shape youth mental health, strategies for healthy social media use and ways that regulation rooted in policy can help.
The latest articles on occupational medicine, workplace culture, and the labor market are in the "In the Workplace" channel on Newswise.
Researchers at UHN's Krembil Brain Institute have uncovered links between structural changes in the brain and neuropsychiatric symptoms of various neurodegenerative diseases.
Debunking, “prebunking,” nudging and teaching digital literacy are several of the more effective ways to counter misinformation, according to a new report from the American Psychological Association.
It may feel as if the questionnaires from your doctor’s office are a waste of time, but they actually serve a more important role in your health care than you think
Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, director of MSU’s Family and Communication Relationships Lab, shares five ways to stay emotionally healthy amid the pressure and stress holiday gatherings can bring.
We all know the popular holiday song “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” But for many people, a more appropriate lyric might be “It’s the Most Stressful Time of the Year.”
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $3.37 million research grant to Baylor University, Blackfeet Community College (BFCC) in Browning, Montana, and Montana State University-Bozeman to explore how the resiliency of the Blackfeet American Indian community could mitigate the health effects related to historical and childhood trauma.
Parenting is always challenging, but for adopted people becoming a mum or dad can be extra demanding, as well as extra special – according to research from the University of East Anglia.
New research indicates that acoustic stimulation of the brain may ease persistent symptoms in individuals who experienced mild traumatic brain injury in the past. The study, which is published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, included 106 military service members, veterans, or their spouses with persistent symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury 3 months to 10 years ago.
Becoming a parent can be a turning point for adopted people, but it can also bring up past issues of loss, rejection, and abuse. Support is needed for adopted parents to break cycles of neglect and abuse
Black pregnant individuals frequently experience more than one mental health concern, according to findings published by Susan Gennaro, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor in the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, and colleagues in The Nurse Practitioner.
Stay informed! Keep up with the latest research on the COVID-19 virus in the Coronavirus channel on Newswise.
We all know the holidays can be hectic — and even science backs this up. A 2020 study by the American Psychological Association found that a quarter of all Americans consider themselves "extremely stressed" during the holiday season. Triggering that stress? According to the study: things like not having enough time, money and the incessant pressure to give or receive gifts.
Surfing has a significant impact on the global economy, contributing about US$1 trillion a year by improving the mental health of surfers.
A new study from UCLA Health researchers demonstrates that a novel treatment is effective in most patients with major depressive symptoms even after multiple failed courses of antidepressant medication.
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