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New research suggests that some women weaponize kindness, using acts of generosity as a subtle strategy to outmaneuver social rivals. This "competitive altruism" is strongly linked to manipulative personality traits and…
When a person is in the middle of a serious mental health crisis and can’t make medical decisions for themselves, families say Oklahoma’s system can leave legal ...
Waking up out of sync with your internal clock can cause social anxiety. A new psychological study finds this temporal misalignment makes people prefer being evaluated by artificial intelligence over human beings.
A recent study indicates that Americans with lower cognitive ability scores tend to be more likely to embrace Christian nationalism. The findings suggest the ideology’s appeal is linked to underlying cognitive resources…
A clinical trial is set to test whether diet could help reduce depressive symptoms in people with bipolar disorder, comparing a high fat, low carbohydrate diet with standard NHS healthy eating advice.
A mental health charity founded by former Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams is joining forces with Loughborough University to launch a new research hub aimed at improving the mental health and ...
A single 20-minute session of alpha-frequency brain stimulation modestly reduced anxiety after a stressful task in healthy middle-aged and older adults.
Teens whose sleep length swings from night to night report more anxiety and sadness, a Fitbit-based study of 1,371 adolescents finds. The link was stronger in girls, and irregular sleepers reported suppressing their…
People who were more resilient before an ayahuasca retreat reported somewhat more intense challenging experiences, a study of retreat guests in Costa Rica and Peru finds. For them, those challenges were also more closely…
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you’re there? Or struggled to recall where you left your keys? These memory lapses aren’t unusual, especially as we age, but a new paper published
As Mental Health Awareness Week approaches, Professor Sarah Hetrick talks about her career in youth mental health, and why she keeps arriving at the same conclusion: connection matters. When Sarah ...
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People with depression who dramatically cut ultra-processed foods experienced notable improvements in their symptoms in a small preliminary study. Researchers suspect healthier eating may benefit the ...
A new review of research from across sub-Saharan Africa found that inadequate access to food is linked to depression, suicide attempts, HIV vulnerabilities and poorer sexual and reproductive health ...
Today, women are more likely than men to begin an academic career in psychology. Nevertheless, they leave research substantially more often, particularly during the first years after entering the ...
Looking after your mental health often requires a 360-degree approach, with everything from nutrition, exercise and sleep to therapy and medication, where appropriate. When it comes to exercise, ...
The bigger hurdle appears not to be entering academia but staying in it: An international study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development shows that, despite high entry rates, ...
Spread the love“`html It feels like we’re standing on the precipice of something truly monumental in mental healthcare. For decades, the very mention of ‘psychedelics’ conjured images of ...
Depression may change which emotional faces children notice most, but the pattern appears to depend on family history. Children at higher familial risk became increasingly focused on sad faces, while lower-risk children…
A massive MRI study found that Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, psychiatric disorders, and addiction are associated with distinct patterns of accelerated brain aging. The strongest effects appeared in…
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"Curing the root cause of diseases at the genetic level."Gene therapy is a research field born from that very concept.With the legal amendments in May 2025, in vivo gene therapy, which does not ...
We often assume parental divorce causes lasting psychological damage. But new findings indicate the true driver of adult depression is the parental mental illness and addiction that frequently accompany family breakups.
A new study analyzing human hair samples reveals that severe internet addiction is associated with lower long-term accumulations of the stress hormone cortisol, suggesting the body’s biological stress response may become…
Many modern daters seem to have the same complaint: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Possible mates abound—on dating apps, in the databases of professional matchmakers—but none of them appeal. … For
Citizens of former East Germany who faced surveillance and harassment still show higher psychological distress and systemic inflammation decades later. A new study reveals how "soft" authoritarian repression leaves a…
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
Despite greater recognition of bias toward the Global North in psychological science, international and cross-cultural perspectives remain suppressed.
By mapping brain activity like a moving weather system, researchers found that psychedelics consistently reduce the upward flow of sensory information into higher-order brain regions, offering new biological clues into…
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