According to new research, placing too much emphasis on happiness can actually give rise to depressive symptoms, especially in the Western world.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: Rich people are staying healthy for almost a decade longer than poor people
Major study shows troubling economic inequalities behind lifespans in the US and UK.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: Women who had early miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy more likely to have PTSD
A miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy can cause many women to struggle for months after their loss.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: What is the difference between anorexia and bulimia?
People with anorexia tend to severely restrict their food intake, while those with bulimia go through periods of overeating followed by unhealthful behaviors to ‘purge.’ Learn more here.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: Making art helps your brain
There’s evidence that making art can lower stress and anxiety.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: Languages affected differently by brain disease
There are differences in the way English and Italian speakers are affected by dementia-related language problems.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: Protests linked to post-traumatic stress disorder
A third of Hong Kong’s adults are estimated to have symptoms of PTSD during months of social unrest.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: Thousands of LA jail inmates should receive community mental health support
A report that the LA County commissioned suggests that many jail inmates would benefit from diversion to community-based mental health programs.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: How the ‘rubber hand illusion’ may help those with OCD
New research shows how using a fake rubber hand may enable people living with obsessive-compulsive disorder to overcome their contamination fears.
Risk Of Incorrect Content: Video » Discover NIMH: Dr. Sarah Lisanby on Brain Stimulation Therapy
Dr. Sarah Lisanby, Director of the NIMH Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit describes how TMS has gone from a research tool to something that is really making a difference in peoples’ lives.
