by Taylor & Francis Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Teenagers with happy childhood memories are likely to drink less, take fewer drugs and enjoy learning, according to research published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction Research & Theory. The findings, based on data from nearly 2,000 US high school students, show a link between how pupils feel about the past,...
by Taylor & Francis Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Teenagers with happy childhood memories are likely to drink less, take fewer drugs and enjoy learning, according to research published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction Research & Theory. The findings, based on data from nearly 2,000 US high school students, show a link between how pupils feel about the past, present and future and...
by University College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Baby boomers and Generation X are at the greatest risk of mental ill-health in middle age, finds new UCL research. The study, published today in Psychological Medicine, reveals that 20% of those born in 1970—part of Generation X—19% of baby boomers born in 1946, and 15% of baby boomers born...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HEALTH SCIENCES/UW MEDICINE As anxiety and depression rise in the country, primary care clinics, especially in rural areas, are facing increased patient needs. One way to address this is to bolster healthcare providers’ ability to diagnose and treat patients with common mental health disorders. Researchers at UW Medicine found that primary-care physicians...
By Linda Williams | Published 8 hours ago | Special Reports | FOX 10 Phoenix PHOENIX – Alzheimer’s disease robs millions of people of their memory and their lives, and even after years of research, there’s still no cure. A Phoenix-based company thinks it may have discovered a treatment that stops, even reverses the process....
By Jamie Eske Reviewed by Nancy Hammond, MD Exercise has a range of benefits for people with multiple sclerosis. It can, for example, help improve strength and mobility and boost mental well-being. In previous years, doctors recommended that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) avoid too much physical activity, believing that it could make fatigue and other symptoms worse. However, research...
by University of Bath New research conducted at the University of Bath has demonstrated important differences in how people with and without hoarding problems discard objects and the role their memories play. It was already known that hoarding behaviour is driven by a strong emotional connection with objects. But the new experimental findings, published online in the journal Behavior Therapy, show that for people who hoard this connection may...
Although most people strive to live their lives in a meaningful and purposeful way, they may still question whether they are truly living their lives to the fullest. Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Karen Lawson gives her advice on what it can mean to live your life to its full potential. Credit: CC0 Public Domain “Living life to the fullest has different meanings to different people....
