The number of children referred to the NHS with gender identity issues has increased more than tenfold over the past six years. The latest figures from the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) revealed that 969 under-18s in the UK have been referred from April to December 2015, including ...
Date Posted: October 11, 2016
Categories: Gender Identity disorder
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All people, at times, fill up with grief, spill over with joy, or tremble with anger. Most of us are taught early on to manage these emotions by sharing and reveling in the positive ones, while repressing or apologizing for the negative ones. Either ...
Oct 11
Categories: Happiness
GOHere's a video on 5 things you can start to do right now to help reduce and relieve anxiety. Following these tips on how to ...
Oct 10
Categories: Anxiety
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Procrastination — we are all guilty of it. Irrationally delaying a task in day-to-day life can have minor effects, such as lost sleep from staying up late to meet a deadline, but it can also be detrimental. From a health perspective, waiting to go ...
Oct 10
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A relatively new class of drugs, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, have had much success in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Now, these drugs may offer support in the treatment of addiction and drug abuse.
Oct 7
Categories: Addictions
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If you were old enough to see a PG-13 movie in 1997, chances are you went to see Titanic. And chances are you cried. You might have even seen the film multiple times, doing your part to make it the highest-grossing sob fest in movie history. Now, a ...
Oct 7
Categories: Relationships & Marriage, Social Anxiety / Phobia
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Regular users of cannabis are less aware of their own mistakes, and they are not good at creative thinking. This is the conclusion drawn by psychologist Mikael Kowal from his research on the effects of cannabis.
Oct 6
Categories: Creative Blocks, Drug Addiction
GOWatch this video in which Psychology heavy weight Dr. Peter Fonagy is interviewed about Mentalization - a field he helped ...
Oct 6
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Reporting in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, psychology researchers recorded the brain activity of people looking at disturbing pictures immediately after meditating for the first time. These participants were able to tame their ...
Oct 5
Categories: Meditation, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex ...
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In a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology explores the way that female managers are appraised when they treat others unjustly. The research suggests that while the sexes are treated even-handedly when they commit certain injustices, there ...
Oct 5
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Many well-regarded leaders appear to find success through psychopathic traits - namely, fearlessness, social influence and immunity to stress. However, research suggests that leaders who also possess psychopathy's negative characteristics - ...
Oct 4
Categories: Other
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A vast new study finds that a sense of humor lowers mortality rates, especially for women. Women with a strong sense of humor were found to live longer in spite of illness, especially cardiovascular disease and infection. Mirthful men seem to be ...
Oct 4
Categories: Adult psychological development, Happiness, Life Purpose / Meaning / ...
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Women who receive strong social support from their families during pregnancy appear to be protected from sharp increases in a particular stress hormone, making them less likely to develop postpartum depression, according to a new study published in ...
Oct 4
Categories: Depression, Post Partum Depression
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For years, clinicians have suspected that diet may affect ADHD symptoms, and in recent years, research has suggested a potential impact of various aspects of diet on ADHD. This research includes examining the use of elimination diets, as well as ...
Oct 3
Categories: Adult psychological development, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity ...
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Every action we take involves a cost to us in physical energy, yet studies about decision-making have tended to look at how we weight up external costs like risks or time. However, being unwilling to exert effort is a symptom for a range of mental ...
Oct 3
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A new study of adolescents suggests that obtaining an insufficient amount of sleep increases variability in sadness, anger, energy and feelings of sleepiness. The study also showed that nightly fluctuations in sleep in healthy adolescents predict ...
Oct 1
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Teenage Issues
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