Volunteering may be good for your health, reveals a large systematic review and meta-analysis led by the University of Exeter Medical School.
Volunteering can improve mental health and help you live longer, finds the study which is published in the open access journal BMC Public Health. The research pools and compares data from multiple ...
Date Posted: August 24, 2013
GOSingapore - The first insurance scheme here designed for children and young adults with autism has seen some 50 applications since its launch last week, as well as sparked calls urging insurers to consider schemes for those with mental illnesses, ...
Aug 24
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Researchers at Princeton University are developing ways to use mobile phones to explore how one’s environment influences one’s sense of well-being.
In a study involving volunteers who agreed to provide information about their feelings and ...
Aug 24
Categories: Happiness
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KUALA LUMPUR: While it is normal to want to maintain an ideal weight to remain healthy and attractive, it is, however, abnormal to obsess over it until one resorts to unhealthy methods.
Malaysian Mental Health Association deputy president ...
Aug 23
Categories: Eating Disorders
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Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, such as antianxiety drugs, are not always effective ...
Aug 23
Categories: Anxiety
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KUCHING: Hundreds of mental health professionals are in town for the 3rd Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling and Psychotherapy Conference 2013.
Counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists from countries such as New Zealand, Australia, ...
Aug 23
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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The researchers recruited 72 volunteers and measured their ‘cognitive flexibility’ described as a person’s ability to adapt and switch between tasks, and think about multiple ideas at a given time to solve problems.
Two groups of volunteers ...
Aug 22
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New research shows that in a dynamic mind-body interaction during the interpretation of prolonged stress, cells from the immune system are recruited to the brain and promote symptoms of anxiety.
The findings, in a mouse model, offer a new ...
Aug 22
Categories: Mood Swings / Bipolar, Stress Management
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When you share your lunch with someone less fortunate or give your friend half of your dessert, does that act of generosity flow from the milk of human kindness, or is it a subconscious strategy to assure reciprocity should you one day find yourself ...
Aug 22
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Decades of research have shown that writing down your emotions has concrete health benefits - even helping wounds heal. But as more and more people publish their intimate feelings online, could they be doing themselves more harm than ...
Aug 21
Categories: Happiness
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People usually feel good when they make a charitable donation, but they feel even better if they make the donation directly to someone they know or in a way that builds social connection. Research to be published in the International Journal of ...
Aug 21
Categories: Happiness
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Have you been feeling a little emotionally drained lately? Have you been finding yourself responding to the emergencies of others as if they are your own?
Perhaps you have been allowing someone to invade your space even though you are not quite ...
Aug 21
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The worlds of business, office design and psychology really need to get their heads together. Large open-plan offices have become the norm across modern cities despite a sizeable literature documenting the disadvantages, including increased ...
Aug 20
Categories: Workplace Issues
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A Danish study of siblings suggests the recurrence risks for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) varied from 4.5 percent to 10.5 percent depending on the birth years, which is higher than the ASD risk of 1.18 percent in the overall Danish population, ...
Aug 20
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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The survey of unmarried, heterosexual men and women found that men were willing to absorb the cost of early dates, but this quickly changes with time.
There was a slight discrepancy in how much each gender thought they contributed. Most men and ...
Aug 20
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What does it take to think and act in an intelligent way? Many of us would say it’s simply a matter of raw brainpower. That perspective was on display in a recent NPR segment, in which the pundit David Brooks described the case for appointing ...
Aug 19
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