Mental HealthAug 19, 2024
Telehealth for Rural Communities: The Mental Health Care Gap
Access to mental health care remains a significant challenge across rural America. Limited resources, fewer health care providers ...
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Mental HealthAug 16, 2024
India's Rural Mental Health Program Shows Promise
This innovative program also fostered significant changes in mental health knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, helping to combat ...
Mental HealthAug 15, 2024
Social media firms ‘failing to detect and remove’ suicide and self-harm content
Some of the biggest social media platforms are failing to detect and remove dangerous suicide and self-harm content, according to ...
Mental HealthAug 14, 2024
Managing Depression With Spravato
Spravato (esketamine) is a nasal spray used for depression and was approved by the FDA in 2019. It is specifically for treatment ...
Mental HealthAug 9, 2024
Study reveals ways in which 40Hz sensory stimulation may preserve brain's 'white matter'
Scientists report that gamma frequency light and sound stimulation preserves myelination in mouse models and reveal molecular mechanisms that may underlie the benefit.
Mental HealthJul 31, 2024
Serotonin-producing neurons regulate malignancy in ependymoma brain tumors
Researchers have discovered tumor-neuron interactions that regulate the growth of ependymoma brain tumors.
Mental HealthJul 29, 2024
Anxiety Is Like Exercise
Imagine that you just got a bad job evaluation, or learned that your suspicious mole really might be cancer. Your heart races ...
Mental HealthJul 26, 2024
On Grief, Dreams, and Remembering
In a recent dream, I sat on a marble slab near the fireplace, enjoying a small chocolate from my grandma and grandpa's candy dish.
Mental HealthJul 25, 2024
The Mental and Physical Health Benefits of Volunteering
It's probably a safe bet that most of us have volunteered our time, talents, sweat, or ideas at least a few times to support a ...
Mental HealthJul 23, 2024
Is there a connection between long COVID and anxiety?
Research shows there may be a link between long COVID and long-term mental health conditions, such as anxiety. Long COVID defines ...
Mental HealthJul 22, 2024
Boosting fruit intake during midlife can ward off late-life blues
In a large Singapore cohort study involving over 13,000 participants spanning close to 20 years, higher consumption of fruits during midlife was found to be associated with lower odds of depressive symptoms at late-life.
Mental HealthJul 22, 2024
An over- or under-synchronized brain may predict psychosis
Is it possible to assess an individual's risk of psychosis? Identifying predictive markers is a key challenge in psychiatry. A team now shows that overly strong or weak interconnections between certain brain areas could…
Mental HealthJul 22, 2024
Bipolar disorder and alcohol: It's not as simple as 'self-medication'
Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of 'self medication' to ease bipolar's life-altering symptoms of mania, depression, anxiety…
Mental HealthJul 19, 2024
Social anxiety can be limiting. There are ways to get relief.
“I enter a party and feel all eyes on me. My pulse quickens, my face burns and my stomach churns. Everybody must be judging me ...
Mental HealthJul 17, 2024
Youth with conduct disorder show widespread differences in brain structure
The largest neuroimaging study of conduct disorder to date has revealed extensive changes in brain structure among young people with the disorder. The largest difference was a smaller area of the brain's outer layer…
Mental HealthJul 15, 2024
What is the link between anxiety and fatigue?
Anxiety and fatigue can occur together. Anxiety can be a natural response to stress and is sometimes beneficial. However, having ...
Mental HealthJul 13, 2024
Researchers discover a new neural biomarker for OCD
A recent study has identified a specific neural activity pattern as a novel biomarker to accurately predict and monitor the clinical status of individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who have undergone deep…
Mental HealthJul 11, 2024
Behavioral health commission proposes $2.5 million for rural and frontier Montana counties
Plans for a pilot program to fund locally led behavioral health solutions in rural and frontier communities move to Gov. Greg Gianforte for approval.
Mental HealthJul 10, 2024
New form of repetitive magnetic brain stimulation reduces treatment time for bipolar disorder
A potential new treatment for bipolar disorder (BP) that significantly shortens treatment time has emerged, following a randomized clinical trial using accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation (aiTBS). While…
Mental HealthJul 10, 2024
Addressing behavioral health resources and costs in Ohio
Like many in the U.S., Ohioans are experiencing a historic shortage of behavioral healthcare resources. But population health ...
Mental HealthJul 4, 2024
Clever pupils don't need to attend academically selective schools to thrive, study finds
New findings challenge the idea that academically selective schools are necessary for clever pupils to achieve good outcomes.
Mental HealthJun 24, 2024
Personalized magnetic stimulation may help in treating depression
Not all patients with depression respond to medication. Two recently published studies provide additional information on how an alternative treatment, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), could be further enhanced…
Mental HealthJun 23, 2024
I Saw My Anxiety Reflected in ‘Inside Out 2.’ It Floored Me.
I didn’t have a word for my anxiety when I was younger, and wasn’t diagnosed with an anxiety disorder until my 20s. So in watching “Inside Out 2,” I wondered whether the film was speaking chiefly to ...
Mental HealthJun 21, 2024
Potential targets for prevention and early identification of psychotic disorders
A new study found that nearly 75 per cent of young people with a psychotic disorder had at least one mental health service visit within the three years prior to their first diagnosis of the disorder.
Mental HealthJun 20, 2024
How To Deal With Grief: What Experts Say
Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the ...
Mental HealthJun 18, 2024
Do you have a mental illness? Why some people answer ‘yes’, even if they haven’t been diagnosed
Mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders have become more prevalent, especially among young people. Demand for ...
Mental HealthJun 18, 2024
Policy Dialogue on the Mental Health of Older Persons
A significant share of older persons in the UNECE region is affected by mental disorders and other mental health conditions.
Mental HealthJun 14, 2024
Understanding Grief and Depression After the Loss of a Pet
Depressed mood during pet bereavement is common, but clinical depression isn’t usually part of the package. Support from loved ...
Mental HealthJun 12, 2024
Brain regions that bias the brain's response to pleasure in bipolar disorder identified
Momentary shifts in mood, even those lasting just a matter of seconds, profoundly alter the brain's response to pleasurable experiences in people with bipolar disorder, finds a new study.
Mental HealthJun 12, 2024
Depressive symptoms in young adults linked to thinking, memory problems in midlife
People who experience prolonged depressive symptoms starting in young adulthood may have worse thinking and memory skills in middle age, according to a new study. The study also found that depressive symptoms were…