Why South African women need to prioritise mental health this Women's Month
Women’s Month is a timely reminder that women’s mental health matters, especially when stress, caregiving, work and expectations leave little room for rest or support.
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Women’s Month is a timely reminder that women’s mental health matters, especially when stress, caregiving, work and expectations leave little room for rest or support.
Drastic or even life-threatening events can have lingering effects, like an echo. This is referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The brain is unable to process these overwhelming ...
Spread the love“`html Imagine a world where a single dose of medicine could lift the shroud of depression, a condition that grips millions, often for a lifetime. It sounds almost too good to be true, ...
A new study published today unveils the daily reality of vaping addiction among younger Australians, showing how the products disrupt lives and are even relied on for stress relief.
It’s not hard to imagine this scene: you show up at a friend’s place with a bunch of flowers and a box of chocolates for the toddler. You hand over the flowers to the parents, and the toddler gets the ...
Have you heard someone say they feel burned out — or felt that “toasted” feeling yourself? The World Health Organization ...
Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) are among the most severe injuries a competitive athlete can face. The ACL is crucial for maintaining both stability and function in the knee joint. Each year, between…
The Ministry of Education will focus its policy capabilities in the second half of this year on nurturing local talent and narrowing educational dispa ...
Posted August 4, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about the experience of telling your partner that he’s hurt you only to be blindsided by his anger and defensiveness. I…
People with ADHD are more likely to experience violence and attend hospital Emergency Departments, finds new research by Cardiff University, Swansea University and the University of York. The work is published in…
The court will evaluate whether the suspect needs to undergo a mental health evaluation before standing trial, a spokesperson told The News Tribune on Tuesday.
Firefly Neuroscience, Inc. (“Firefly” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: AIFF), an Artificial Intelligence ("AI") company advancing precision neuroscience, today announced a close to four-fold (291%) ...
The average age of the German population is rising. Coupled with the growing labor shortage, these demographic trends pose major challenges for pension systems. According to proposals from the Pension Security…
Economics shapes many aspects of our daily lives, from the prices we pay to the policies governments adopt. Yet many of the ideas taught as universal principles of economics emerged from a narrow historical context and…
A clinician-led response model for people experiencing mental health crises will be rolled out after a man experiencing psychosis went on a stabbing rampage.
People who experience greater hardship throughout their lives may become more susceptible to conspiracy theories when those experiences lead them to see the world as fundamentally unfair, according to new research.
Researchers at New York University's Langone Health checked more than 12,000 people without dementia at 55, including some who have high blood pressure, some with type 2 diabetes and others who smoke ...
Psychology says staying home on weekends isn't antisocial. It may reflect healthy self-care, emotional recovery, stress management, and a personality that values balance over constant socializing.
A 12-week program requiring older adults to read out loud, write by hand, and solve basic math problems for 30 minutes a day resulted in measurable improvements on cognitive tests.
Four in 10 children who attend Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Scotland go on to attend specialist psychiatric services as adults, according to new research. This figure increases for teenagers…
English serves as a primary medium of instruction and a key form of academic capital in Somali higher education. However, students’ attitudes toward English learning are shaped by complex motivational and instructional…
BackgroundAutism intervention research has largely prioritized children and adolescents, with limited guidance for adults. Social virtual environments (SVEs; e.g., VRChat) are widely used by autistic adults for…
The locus coeruleus (LC) is the primary source of noradrenergic (NE) neurons in the central nervous system, with extensive neural projections throughout the brain, serving as a key ascending modulatory center for…
This study examined the effects of aging and bilingualism on neural speech perception in Spanish-English (SE) bilinguals and American English (AE) monolinguals. As the population of bilingual older adults continues to…
BackgroundThe integration of virtual reality (VR) technologies into clinical rehabilitation and diagnostics is rapidly expanding, yet the neurophysiological mechanisms of their influence on spinal motor circuits remain…
PurposeResearch has shown that augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has the potential to function not only as a compensatory communicative strategy, but also as a tool to facilitate language recovery for…
IntroductionMany studies have examined the neural bases of word translation based on the revised hierarchical model (RHM). However, the findings reported thus far, mostly focusing on advanced or elementary…
Graphical AbstractGraphical abstract–Neuroimaging in affective neuroscience.Infographic presenting four interconnected panels describing convergent affective neurocircuitry using brain diagrams, connectivity maps, and…
Disorders of consciousness (DoC) following severe brain injury remain difficult to treat, and effective non-invasive therapeutic options are still limited. Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) has…
IntroductionNarrow-band gamma (NBG) is an oscillatory activity in the gamma band (60–90 Hz) that has been observed in the subthalamic nucleus (STN), the motor cortex, and, more recently, the globus pallidus internus…
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