As suicide rates continue to climb, psychologists and public health officials scramble to find solutions. Michael Nadorff, a psychologist at Mississippi State University, argues that one treatable risk factor has been hiding in the dark: nightmares.
Date Posted: January 14, 2017
Categories: Depression, Sleep Disorders, Suicide Prevention
GOImmediately after we've been shunned, a new study shows our brains engage a subtle mechanism that alters our sense of whether other people are making eye contact with us, so that we think it more likely that they are looking our way.
Jan 14
Categories: Friendships, Relationships & Marriage, Social Isolation
GOThis comforting guided meditation video by Jason Stephenson includes soothing music and his calm voice guiding you through a ...
Jan 13
Categories: Grief, Loss, Bereavement
GOThe primary treatment for adults with ADHD has always been the primary treatment together with good empirical support, however, many adults would rather not take it. Research studies have explored if medication is likely to provide significant ...
Jan 13
Categories: Adult ADHD
GOThe best things in life are free! Self-talk is one simple technique that can be used to guide you through difficult times in a relationship and help you see the situation from a new perspective.
Jan 12
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
GOThe increased desire to eat when you're drunk might have more to do with changes in your brain than changes in your stomach!
Jan 12
GOStress has multiple damaging effects on your mental and physical health. Furthermore, neuroscientists have discovered that stress could even inhibit your ability to learn!
Jan 12
Categories: Stress Management
GOA major influence to instilling an exercise habit for the new year clearly depends on one psychological factor which affects our chances on how we think we will feel during the exercise, and how that compares to the way we actually feel when we get ...
Jan 11
Categories: Health Psychology, Sports Psychology
GODue to the immaturity of the teen brain, lacking of the same connectivity between frontal decision making areas and deeper reward-related brain areas, teenagers are more prone to taking risks. However, there’s a social element involved when an ...
Jan 11
Categories: Teenage Issues
GOBilingual children might have an extra advantage of knowing two languages--they are prone to develop brain pathways that save mental resources.
Jan 10
GONaps have been known to boost cognitive performances and researchers have further discovered that the best time to do so is right after lunch--and it keeps your brain young!
Jan 10
GOErica Hepper and her colleagues explain one simple method to invoke empathy in narcissists.
Jan 10
GOA novel suite of 13 speedy mini-apps - IntelliCare has been created to help individuals with depression and/or anxiety to cope. Participants who used the app up to four times a day reported significantly less depression and anxiety.
Jan 9
Categories: Anxiety, Depression
GOAre you the majority who cannot do your job well and stress out easily without email? A new study shows how personality differences affect how we use email and what we find stressful.
Jan 9
Categories: Stress Management
GOIn the animal kingdom it is the norm to bare teeth in the face of danger or to display threat. However, humans have treated bare-teethed smiles as a friendly gesture. Frank McAndrew of the Knox College explains possible reasons why this human ...
Jan 7
GOThe first country to remove transgender as a mental health issue is Denmark. The country aims to destigmatize and break down its association with words like "disorder".
Jan 7
Categories: Gender Identity disorder, Identity Problems
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