mental health
A new study finds that casually fibbing to children results in lifelong issues.
Researchers measured high- and low-adversity participants’ feelings of compassion.
Lengthening daylight isn’t necessarily good news where mental health is concerned.
A new study shows that nearly 40 percent of Americans report being stressed out by U.S. politics.
While pressure to succeed is on the rise, students’ mental health and readiness for college has diminshed.
Most of us can’t imagine wanting absolute control over a nation or feeling compelled to commit mass murders — so then what is it about a dictator’s psychology that makes them different?
Suicide rates in Puerto Rico have risen by a third since Hurricane Maria.
Duke University psychiatrist Harold Koenig describes how.
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Most of us have heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs, but Maslow doesn’t have a monopoly on self-actualization.
Moving the needle forward on psychedelic research.
Anxiety provoked by an unavoidable threat — like an electric shock in a lab — increases as the expected event draws closer.
When you combine feelings of resentment with the societal praise of leaving one’s mark, it forms a lethal cocktail.
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Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, called for a mass psychedelic act of civil disobedience in protest of drug criminalization.
How do we combat the roots of these hateful forces?
Cat owners are no more likely to be crazy than you.
Yet another study shows the potential efficacy of psychedelics in treating addiction.
The organization argues that there is no evidence for this claim.
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?
How different types of green space affect mental health.
Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.
A new essay by Rafael Euba questions the goals of the happiness industry.
Most diseases don’t differ depending on where you’re from. Schizophrenia, however, is heavily dependent on your culture.
The Harvard Medical School’s clinical professor of psychiatry wrote the book on the topic.
Try not to think about your hands. Now enjoy a few minutes of not being able to stop thinking about them.
Brain plasticity. Mindful superpowers. Pokémon invading our grey matter. Scientists have only begun to learn about the human brain.
It isn’t surprising, but what’s behind the straight-white-male hegemony?
The “dangerous people” framework is a myth.
Smoking may put more than just your physical health at risk.
We’re going to have to reckon with our workweek sooner than later.