by Emily Caldwell, The Ohio State University Credit: CC0 Public Domain A more mystical and insightful psychedelic drug experience may be linked to an enduring reduction in anxiety and depression symptoms, according to a new study. Researchers conducted a machine learning analysis of data from nearly 1,000 respondents to a survey about their previous non-clinical experiences...
by British Medical Journal Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Satisfying relationships in midlife with partners, friends, or work colleagues are linked to a lower risk of accumulating multiple long term conditions in older age—at least among women—suggests research published in the open access journal General Psychiatry. The less satisfying these relationships were, the greater was the risk,...
A teenager, after posting an anti-LGBTQ+ and antisemitic manifesto online, stood outside a gay bar in Slovakia’s capital city and shot dead two people. He said he was inspired by another teenager, halfway across the world, Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York, who live streamed via a helmet camera the shooting and killing of 10...
by University of Glasgow Credit: University of Glasgow Does someone look angry or sad? You can probably offer an answer to that question based on the information you can see just by looking at their face. That’s because facial expressions—or a combination of different small facial movements—can be read by other humans to help understand...
by Lindsey Tanner Stanford women’s soccer team players wear warmup jerseys with “Mental Health Matters” on their backs as well as a butterfly patch on their sleeves to remember late goalie Katie Meyer, who died by suicide earlier in the year, before an NCAA college soccer match against UCLA, Oct. 14, 2022, in Stanford, Calif....
by Tufts University Chronic unpredictable stress induced behavioral deficits. CUS increased avoidance behaviors, with decreased total time spent in the center of the open field without altered overall locomotor behavior (A) control n=14, CUS n=15. (B) representative heat maps of mobility during the open field test of control and CUS mice. CUS also increased stress-induced...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, Feb. 16, 2023 — According the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, depression is a common experience for stroke survivors. A scientific statement from the Association indicates that about one-third of stroke survivors experience depression – compared to 5%–13% of adults without stroke. If left untreated, it...
by Mike Krings, University of Kansas The Eather mother avatar is shown in the forest setting of the EEG-enabled Virtual Therapy System. Credit: Chris Tacca Clients seeking therapy need to feel comfortable in an environment that is conducive to examining mental health and with a counselor they can trust. Meeting those needs can be challenging...
by Kathryn Mills-Webb, University of Manchester Mean HADS total scores and 95% confidence intervals for each trial arm at each assessment point, for complete cases only. HADS, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Credit: PLOS Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004161 A study led by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) and the University of Manchester (UoM) has...
by The Ohio State University The authors analyzed data from 7,068 Americans who were part of a larger study that regularly measured their cognitive function from 1996 to 2016. Credit: mohamed_hassan, Pixabay, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) The risk factors linked to cognitive decline in older adults explain a surprisingly modest amount about the large variation in mental...
