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A cross-sectional study of 453 Portuguese preschool children found that 23.6 percent showed borderline or abnormal mental health scores, with household income, family structure and lack of sports ...
A large study suggests loneliness and social isolation can cost people years of healthy life, especially when it comes to mental health. Men experiencing both lost about 5.8 years free from depression and anxiety, while…
How much time children spend on screens may matter less than many assume. In a Scottish study following thousands of children to age 15, screen time showed few consistent links with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people report worse mental health on average than heterosexual people. But when they’re compared with their own heterosexual siblings and twins, much of that gap shrinks, a new meta-analysis of…
People who believe in the devil and hell are more likely to blame society for poverty, while those who believe in a supportive deity are less likely to do so, according to a recent survey of South Korean adults.
Mail-in ballots are usually discussed as a way to boost turnout. New research suggests they may also help voters make better choices, with mail voters more likely to pick the candidate aligned with their stated…
A history of childhood neglect or abuse may be reflected in how the body handles stress during pregnancy. In a new study, affected women showed stronger inflammatory responses to a stress test, linked in turn to more…
Highly intelligent women often face a hidden social penalty in the workplace. A new study reveals that female employees with high cognitive ability are perceived as more hostile, leading to fewer supportive interactions…
Boys are diagnosed with autism earlier than girls, so are genetic differences between early and late diagnosis really about sex? For early-diagnosed autism, a new study suggests not. For late diagnosis, the answer…
The Arab Youth Center (AYC) has released a study showing that 94.8% of participants view youth mental health as a shared responsibility across educational institutions, workplaces, families and young ...
A retrospective TriNetX cohort study by Drexel University researchers examines psychiatric outcomes in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome-associated acne treated with spironolactone, oral ...
High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects nearly half of Americans. In a new study, researchers found it can affect mental health.
Women were more interested in hypothetical jobs, and expected to feel more at home in them, when told most employees were women, according to four studies that pitted gender representation against job ads emphasizing…
Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain profiles, each…
Recovering from depression doesn’t always mean feeling things fully again. In a study of 106 patients on antidepressants, emotional blunting was less common among patients in remission but still affected 45% of them.
Loneliness among parents of emigrated children links to psychological distress, emotion regulation issues, and problematic series watching, per NIMHANS study.
Are you willing to wait for a bigger payoff? Researchers studying young Danes found that the more patient ones tended to apply to longer degree programs with steeper earnings growth, even after accounting for grades and…
For some young children, communication with a twin or sibling can take on a form that adults struggle to understand. A study examined this so-called “secret language” and found that it was ...
Kenya’s efforts to strengthen universal health coverage (UHC) could be undermined by a largely overlooked crisis among the very workers expected to deliver healthcare at community level: poor mental ...
Psychology is at its most helpful when it can explain something familiar like: how motivation waxes and wanes, how communication derails, how social settings influence behavior, or how people make ...
A new study of 5,515 US adolescents found that higher daily step counts were linked to fewer mental health problems and subtle differences in brain structure a year later.
GUT-FEELINGS is part of ARPA-H’s Evidence-Based Validation & Innovation for Rapid Therapeutics in Behavioral Health initiative ( EVIDENT ), which is focused on finding objective measures of mental ...
Shared family factors, such as genes and upbringing, are likely to explain a large part of the link between high screen use and mental health problems in young people. This is according to a new study ...
Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK ...
Older adults who struggled to afford enough food had roughly twice the odds of screening positive for probable dementia, according to a study that tracked more than 2,000 Americans from middle age into older age.
Shared family factors, such as genes and upbringing, are likely to explain a large part of the link between high screen use and mental health problems ...
Drinking problems may be a risk factor for reoffending that good social and cognitive skills don't offset, suggests a study of nearly 7,800 Canadian men who had perpetrated intimate partner violence.
A new meta-analysis reveals that while ADHD and autism both feature atypical brain responses to rewards, the underlying neural activity goes in completely opposite directions, providing biological clues to their distinct…
Amanda Paluch, associate professor of kinesiology, was one of the co-authors of the study, which involved more than 5,500 adolescents in 21 locations across the U.S.
A cross-sectional study of 300 nurses in Türkiye finds that better work-family-life balance and higher psychological resilience are associated with fewer mental health symptoms.
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