By Rich Haridy January 22, 2023 The VR sensory space offers a number of sensory room experiences Evenness A first-of-its-kind study has found adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities may experience improvements to symptoms of anxiety and depression after using specially designed virtual reality sensory rooms. Sensory rooms have been utilized for decades to help manage distress,...
by University of Cambridge Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have worked out why common anti-depressants cause around half of users to feel emotionally “blunted.” In a study published today in Neuropsychopharmacology, they show that the drugs affect reinforcement learning, an important behavioral process that allows people to learn from their environment. According to the NHS, more...
by Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Xin-Yun Lu, MD, PhD, (center) with Graduate Student Kirstyn Denney (left) and Postdoctoral Fellow Yuting Chen, PhD, both coauthors on the new paper. Credit: Michael Holahan, Augusta University It’s clear that chronic stress can impact our behavior, leading to problems like depression, reduced interest in things that...
by University of Bath Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Adults with high levels of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than adults with high levels of autistic traits, according to new research led by psychologists at the University of Bath in the UK. This study is the first to...
by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two major health conditions appear to share a connection. Multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease which eats away at the body’s central nervous system, affects millions of people globally and depression, a mood disorder with debilitating symptoms, affects hundreds of millions of people globally. Patients with MS are...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Jan 19 2023 A study conducted in Brazil and reported in an article published in Molecular Psychiatry suggests that schizophrenia may be associated with alterations in the vascularization of certain brain regions. Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), D’Or Research and Education Institute (IDOR) and the Federal University of Rio de...
by Rutgers University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Rutgers and other universities have developed a behavioral model that explains a long-standing health care mystery: Why do so many terminally ill patients undergo intense last-ditch treatments with little chance of meaningful life extension? Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home,...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100895 At team of researchers at Stanford University reports evidence that people who engage in cyclic sighing breathing exercises see a greater reduction in stress than those engaging in mindfulness meditation. In their paper published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, the researchers describe their study of several different...
Guardian science correspondent is put to the test in the panic-inducing VR world of a game that teaches breathing technique Linda Geddes, left, tries the VR game. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian Linda Geddes Science correspondent Fri 13 Jan 2023 07.00 EST Tethered to a chair, in a gloomy basement, I’m doing my best not to...
Christine Kilgore November 14, 2022 Apple A. Bodemer, MD, a dermatologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, teaches patients how to breathe mindfully. So does Kathy Farah, MD, an integrative family physician who practices in Roberts, Wis. Mindful breathing is the most basic mind-body skill and one that can help interrupt the itch-scratch cycle and relieve pain, stress, and...
