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Highly trained nurses are being placed in the frontline at the state’s emergency departments to de-escalate distress in mental health patients and help get them vital care sooner.
The arrival fallacy quietly reschedules your happiness for a date that keeps moving. One weekly habit collects it now instead — a psychologist explains.
A look at whether this could be the direction we’ve needed for ADHD and mental health.
Nearly half of dementia cases may be preventable through lifestyle – and the foods you eat could make all the difference ...
“All ages showed improvement, which challenges the idea that cognitive ability declines at a certain age,” says Ejaz Shamim, MD, a neurologist with Kaiser Permanente in Maryland. “Even those who ...
Back-to-school anxiety is common during the first week, when kids are sizing up new teachers, new classmates and new routines all at once. A little preparation at home can make those early mornings ...
A 2026 South Asian study found 18.1% of adolescent girls reported loneliness against 12.3% of boys. Experts say gendered expectations, safety, social pressure and lack of emotionally safe spaces may ...
A key component of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline faces continuous delays and possible cancelation unless lawmakers pass a bill to fund it, advocates say. In June 2024, the New Jersey Department ...
How does childhood stress affect mental health? New research shows that adversity, unpredictability and caregiving can shape mental health for years.
Marriage has a way of surfacing old wounds, especially ones tied to fear of loss. When a wife carries unresolved abandonment anxiety, often rooted in childhood experiences or past relationships, that ...
The City of Marion has awarded $150,000 to Frontline Counseling and Peak Brain Center to provide confidential behavioral health services for Marion’s first responders.
Dementia changes much more than memory. It can affect thinking, language, judgment, emotions and the ability to manage everyday tasks, and over time it may also change how clearly a person understands ...
THE Health Minister has pointed Islanders struggling with gambling addiction towards existing mental-health services after the Island’s gambling watchdog criticised the lack of progress in providing ...
A neuroscience review of the brain's anxiety circuitry set out to answer two questions: how does the brain hold anxiety in proportion, and what has to break down for everyday worry to tip into an ...
The FDA has approved the first at-home tDCS device for depression. Here is what tDCS is, how the Flow FL-100 works, and what 2026 research says about its safety and effectiveness.
Dr Taiwo Alatishe, a lecturer, honorary consultant psychiatrist and head of the Department of Psychiatry at LAUTECH and LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, in this report by Sade Oguntola, explains ...
Dr Fathiaya Nzhelayim Zakari, Advocacy and Engagement Officer, YEFL-Ghana, has called for the creation of safe and supportive spaces where young people can openly discuss mental health challenges ...
Psychology explains why people may defend old decisions even after circumstances change, with cognitive dissonance, sunk costs and self-image making it difficult to admit a choice no longer works.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month—the perfect time to prepare for the viruses and bacteria that spread each fall and winter.
Why do disagreements about vaccines, climate change or elections often feel so personal? Our research suggests it is not simply because other people have different beliefs. It is because we think those beliefs are…
Some claim that AI will be much better at mental health guidance once it includes artificial wisdom. I explain what this is. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
People all over the world consider morality a part of who they are. A large new study explores how age, gender, and cultural background shape whether individuals view their moral traits as a private compass or a public…
Adolescence is a window of heightened vulnerability to the neurotoxic effects of binge ethanol exposure. Adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) exposure has been shown to induce long-lasting cognitive and behavioral…
A cross-sectional study design. This study explored how individuals with SCI in Bangladesh adapt to disability following rehabilitation and identified the key determinants that influence this adaptation. Adaptation to…
Heterozygous loss-of-function variants in Neurabin I (PPP1R9A), responsible for encoding a cytoskeletal scaffolding protein essential for synaptic plasticity, are recurrently associated with neurodevelopmental and…
Suicide is a major public health concern, and lipid metabolism has been implicated in its neurobiology. We profiled fatty-acid composition in bilateral pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) samples obtained at…
Treatment refractoriness in chronic rheumatic disease — formalised for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) by the EULAR 2021 difficult-to-treat (D2T) criteria and affecting ~12% of patients — is not addressable by any…
Neuropathic pain is associated with sensory neuron injury, and ferroptosis has been implicated in neuronal damage and death. However, the regulatory mechanism of ferroptosis in neuropathic pain remains unclear. This…
Despite global efforts to develop disease-modifying therapies for Parkinson’s disease (PD), recurrent trial failures persist, likely driven by profound and unstratified molecular heterogeneity. The advent of α-syn seed…
Achieving intuitive neural control of supernumerary robotic limbs remains a major challenge in human movement augmentation. Although brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) can translate motor imagery (MI) into robotic commands…