This three year-long research studied the effects of cocaine on patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or antisocial personality disorder.
Date Posted: March 24, 2021
Categories: Drug Addiction, Schizophrenia
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A new study led by University of Miami psychologists suggests that the longer negativity lingers in your brain, the unhappier you may be.
Mar 23
Categories: Happiness
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When you've done something wrong, big or small, it can be hard to own up to it - particularly if you feel you've transgressed a moral or social code. Instead, you might avoid confronting the issue and become defensive.
Mar 18
Categories: Social Isolation
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Reflecting on how you have overcome past personal challenges can help you process negative experiences, a new study from the University of Zurich confirms. Actively reminding yourself of your self-efficacy could also prove useful in the coronavirus ...
Mar 16
Categories: Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem
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Loneliness is a risk factor associated with adolescents being drawn into compulsive internet use. The risk of compulsive use has grown in the coronavirus pandemic: loneliness has become increasingly prevalent among adolescents, who spend longer and ...
Feb 23
Categories: Addictions
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It's well understood that a difficult childhood can increase the likelihood of mental illness, but according to new research from the University of South Australia, a happy and secure childhood does not always protect a child from developing a ...
Feb 20
Categories: Child Development, Happiness
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According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, something else might have an impact on our educational achievements: our assumptions about our professors. If we believe they have faith in our ability to change ...
Feb 16
Categories: Child Development, Learning Difficulties
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Loneliness emerged as a key factor linked to worsening symptoms of depression and anxiety in a study of more than 3,000 people aged 50 or over led by the University of Exeter and King's College London, and funded by The National Institute for Health ...
Jan 26
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Depression, Stress Management
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Research from Wharton's Matthew Killingsworth shows that contrary to previous influential work, there's no dollar-value plateau at which money's importance lessens. One potential reason: Higher earners feel an increased sense of control over life.
Jan 22
Categories: Happiness
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As Ethan Kross, an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist, will cheerfully testify, the person who doesn't sometimes find themselves listening to an unhelpful voice in their head probably doesn’t exist.
Jan 19
Categories: Self-Care / Self Compassion
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With much of the world practicing varying degrees of social distancing and lockdown, researchers have been investigating the key to happiness in isolation.
Jan 12
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Early adulthood, a transitional life stage marked by major changes in social roles and responsibilities, can bring with it an increase of mental health problems. A team of McGill University researchers has found that young adults who perceived ...
Jan 5
Categories: Child Development
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What do you do if your child comes home with a lower score on a test than you both expected? Do you praise their efforts and focus on what they got right? Or do you home in on the answers that they got wrong, hoping this will help them to do better ...
Dec 21
Categories: Parenting
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Depression is a mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people of all ages worldwide. Understanding its mechanisms is vital for the development of effective therapeutic strategies. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and the CNRS ...
Dec 19
Categories: Depression, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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No matter how much you love your partner, there are always going to be things about them that get on your nerves. These can be fairly superficial - not liking the way they fold the laundry, for example, or hating their favourite TV show. Other ...
Dec 14
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative study by UC San Francisco neuroscientists with the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
Dec 7
Categories: Dyslexia
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