This week, a research team led by Associate Professor Grigori Enikolopov of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports online in the journal PlOS One the results of experiments designed to assess the impacts of social stress upon adolescent mice, both at the time they are experienced and during ...
Date Posted: March 31, 2014
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Anxiety, Child Development, Stress ...
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Coroners in London are preparing to investigate two apparent suicides as unexpected deaths by finance workers around the world have raised concerns about mental health and stress levels in the industry.
The inquest into the death of William ...
Mar 31
Categories: Stress Management, Suicide Prevention
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New research published by The Cabinet Office in the UK has revealed that being a member of the clergy is associated with the highest levels of life satisfaction.
Mar 29
Categories: Happiness
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Not all children benefit from medication, some experience intolerable side effects, and many continue to struggle despite the benefits provided by medication.
Behavior therapy can be difficult for parents to ...
Mar 28
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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The current theory apparently being promoted by officials is that the crash of the Malaysian plane may have been an act of suicide, most probably by a pilot.
But do mental health experts agree that this is the most likely explanation of this ...
Mar 28
GOResearchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Allen Institute for Brain Science have published a ...
Mar 27
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Mental health is a topic everyone can relate to. We all personally know what it’s like when you miss the train or you're late to a meeting - we all know what it feels like to be stressed and how it impairs our ability to make good decisions. And ...
Mar 26
Categories: Workplace Issues
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Yoga increases the brain's levels of GABA, a chemical that helps regulate nerve activity, research finds.
The study, lead by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, compared yoga with a 'metabolically matched' walking condition. ...
Mar 26
Categories: Meditation, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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SINGAPORE - About one in 15 Singaporeans suffers from stress-related disorders such as depression at some point in his or her life. Mental health experts said one contributing factor could be Singapore's highly dense urban environment.
Mar 26
Categories: Stress Management
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Some of Australia's leading scientists, researchers and doctors have started world-first clinical research in Brisbane to unlock the code behind post-traumatic stress disorder - the debilitating and potentially fatal mental illness that impacts ...
Mar 25
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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A nasal spray that delivers a peptide to treat depression holds promise as a potential alternative therapeutic approach, research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows.
Mar 25
Categories: Depression
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To be in flow is to be so engrossed in what you're doing-and this can be in any activity although we often tend to associate this state with creative pursuits and elite sport that literally nothing, not the passing of time, your full bladder or the ...
Mar 25
Categories: Happiness
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Having a good quality and restorative sleep is essential for one to be able to function well throughout the day. Failure to do so will lead to numerous impacts to health, both long- and short-term.
Mar 24
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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HONG KONG - Ingrained resistance to discussing mental health problems and suicide in Hong Kong is proving to be an obstacle to bringing down the rising rate of young people killing themselves, suicide prevention workers say.
The city's youth ...
Mar 24
Categories: Suicide Prevention, Teenage Issues
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Building a strong connection to a social group helps clinically depressed patients recover and helps prevent relapse, according to a new study.
For the paper, (CIFAR) Senior Fellow Alexander Haslam, lead author Tegan Cruwys and their colleagues at ...
Mar 23
Categories: Depression, Social Anxiety / Phobia, Social Isolation
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Jilly Dos Santos really did try to get to school on time. She set three successive alarms on her phone. Skipped breakfast. Hastily applied makeup while her fuming father drove. But last year she rarely made it into the frantic scrum at the doors of ...
Mar 22
Categories: Sleep Disorders, Teenage Issues
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