Vitamin D deficiency is not just harmful to physical health - it also might impact mental health, according to a team of researchers that has found a link between seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, and a lack of sunlight.
Date Posted: December 3, 2014
Categories: Depression
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Replenishing the supply of a molecule that normally activates cannabinoid receptors in the brain could relieve mood and anxiety disorders and enable some people to quit using marijuana, a Vanderbilt University study suggests.
Dec 2
Categories: Addictions
GOWhy is it that we find babies so cute, is this an inherently human trait?
Dec 2
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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"The body has all of these failsafe systems in place to keep itself healthy," says Michael Lumpkin, Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology at Georgetown University, USA. "All you really need to do is provide a healing ...
Dec 2
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Positive psychology has changed the course of mainstream psychology. After years classifying and repairing the worst of human experience, positive psychology emerged to build on the best. Spearheaded by Martin Seligman and MihalyCsikszentmihalyi in ...
Dec 1
Categories: Positive Psychology
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Professionals may believe they can maintain an ethical reputation by merely refraining from morally questionable practices: Don't steal, cheat, or bully others. But this alone is not enough. If a higher-up in your organization is found guilty of ...
Dec 1
Categories: Career Development and Change, Workplace Issues
GOStigma surrounding schizophrenia is a circumstance of mental illness that the newly diagnosed schizophrenic may not initially perceive or anticipate. To my knowledge, many schizophrenics initially speak of their mental illnesses publicly to ...
Dec 1
Categories: Schizophrenia
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Staying positive can feel like an uphill battle. No wonder: when Philippe Verduyn and Saskia Lavrijsen asked over 200 high-school students (average age 17) to reminisce about the duration of their recent emotional experiences, they found that ...
Nov 29
Categories: Depression
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Group mindfulness treatment is as effective as individual cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in patients with depression and anxiety, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and Region Skåne. This is the first randomised study to ...
Nov 29
Categories: Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Depression, Mindfulness
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The number of young people suffering from eating disorders has risen significantly in the past decade and is still climbing.
New cases at Singapore General Hospital (SGH), the only hospital to have an exclusive eating disorder programme here, have ...
Nov 28
Categories: Eating Disorders, Mental Health in Asia
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At the Center for Brain Research at the MedUni Vienna an important factor for stress has been identified in collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden). This is the protein secretagogin that plays an important role in the ...
Nov 28
Categories: Stress Management
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Warfare not only hastened human technological progress and vast social and political changes, but may have greatly contributed to the evolutionary emergence of humans' high intelligence and ability to work together toward common goals, according to ...
Nov 27
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Until recently, left-handedness was a matter of great prejudice, and in many cultures, it was common to force left-handed children to write with their right hand. Throughout the world, the prevalence of left-handedness is highly variable, ranging ...
Nov 27
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Talking behind other people's backs may not always be nice, but sometimes it can help promote cooperation and self-improvement.
Nov 27
Categories: Workplace Issues
GOMemories of our daily experience are formed, often during sleep, by inscribing - or "consolidating" - a record of what happened into neural tissue. Joy at the birth of a child or terror in response to a violent personal assault. A bad memory, once ...
Nov 26
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Across different professions, many people are familiar with the sense of having to deliver more with less, meaning clocking-off time falls later and later. One way to protect workers' rights, and look after their wellbeing, is to introduce working ...
Nov 26
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Workplace Issues
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