depression
As little as an extra dollar could mean a significant decrease in suicide rates.
Love triggers the same regions of your brain as cocaine addiction.
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When you struggle with anxiety or depression, sex may be the last thing on your mind. But understanding the physiological and mental benefits of a healthy sex life can help it become a tool for well-being.
The countdown continues! In this video, comedian Pete Holmes likens depression to quicksand and provides a method to help you cope and with it.
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Expert opinions matter, especially when their knowledge is continuously refined by critical analysis.
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An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.
Mycologist Paul Stamets believes they should be.
Move over SSRIs, Advil is on the way.
Researchers say further research is needed, though.
It’s one of our five major personality traits, and arguably, it’s the worst one. Why are some human beings neurotic?
A newly studied hallucinogenic substance has shown signs of treating mental health conditions more efficiently than psilocybin.
The more research conducted on psychedelics, the closer we get to new therapeutic models.
The under-recognized condition affects workers in offices across the globe.
Glenn Albrecht has ideas about how to cope with the effects of a changing world: Invent a new language.
FieldTrip is advancing the realm of clinical psychedelic testing.
Lengthening daylight isn’t necessarily good news where mental health is concerned.
While pressure to succeed is on the rise, students’ mental health and readiness for college has diminshed.
Suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria.
When you combine feelings of resentment with the societal praise of leaving one’s mark, it forms a lethal cocktail.
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A new study highlights the effects of a “digital detox” while traveling.
This modern therapy technique has been shown to be effective and easy to learn — could teaching it to students help cut off a growing mental health crisis?
When he was developing his famous hierarchy of needs, Abraham Maslow cited 9 historical figures that achieved self-actualization.
A new essay by Rafael Euba questions the goals of the happiness industry.
The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.
We’re going to have to reckon with our workweek sooner than later.
If loneliness is a “disease,” is this one of the complications?
When thinking about your shortcomings, it pays to be kind.
Even more intriguing is the reason: recognizing facial expressions.
Can dirt help us fight off stress? Groundbreaking new research shows how.
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.