Anxiety Study provides new insights into emotional regulation strategy use among socially anxious individualspsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan A recent study published in the journal Motivation and Emotion utilized smartphones to get a better understanding of how socially anxious college …
Cognition Meditation linked to enhanced social cognition in new psychology researchpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan Experienced meditators and people who are more mindful tend to score higher on several measures of social cognition, such as emotional recognition, …
Depression Study finds common mental health symptoms are unrelated to gun threatspsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan New research suggests that many common mental health symptoms have no link to using firearms to threaten someone. The study has been published in the …
Mental Health Wider use of assisted outpatient treatment could help individuals with mental illnessstatnews.com - DJ Jaffe In the wake of back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Trump raised the wrath of some mental health advocates when …
Health Papa Roach make longtime fan the star of mental health awareness video for ‘Come Around’NME - Charlotte Krol Papa Roach have shared an emotional video for new single ‘Come Around’, which depicts the life of a diehard fan who lost his sister 2016. ‘Come …
Tai Chi Tai Chi training might promote emotional stability and slow gray matter atrophy in seniorspsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan Long-term Tai Chi practitioners tend to have better emotional stability and more gray matter in important brain structures, according to new research …
Emotions New psychology research indicates being unable to regulate positive emotion is linked to negative outcomespsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan Scientists are beginning to investigate the importance of being able to attenuate positive emotions. A new study, published in the Journal of …
Tea Tea drinkers may get some protection against brain declinefuturity.org - National University of Singapore Regular tea drinkers have better organized brain regions—something associated with healthy cognitive function—compared to non-tea drinkers, according …
Pregnancy Altered brain networks observed in newborns prenatally exposed to maternal depression and SSRI antidepressantspsypost.org - Tim F. Oberlander & Naama Rotem-Kohavi New brain imaging findings suggest that the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication by pregnant women and a mother’s …
The Brain Drug may protect against Alzheimer’s symptomsfuturity.org - Marcene Robinson-Buffalo A new drug, BPN14770, may protect against memory loss, nerve damage, and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers report. Preclinical …
Connectivity Heightened connectivity between two brain networks is associated with anger and aggressionpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan People who engage in more physical aggression are more likely to have overconnectivity between the brain’s default network and attentional networks, …
Cool Stuff 8 Tips From Neuroscientists on How to Become Perfectly Happyboredpanda.com - Kenzie Hollis There are thousands of tips and psychological techniques to help you feel happy and learn to rejoice in each new day. But what if our own body had a …
Elon Musk Brain Implants Like Elon Musk's Neuralink Could Change Humanity ForeverInverse - Thor Benson Mesh implants could help treat diseases and change how we age Sooner than you might think, we might be able to put electronic mesh implants inside the …
Exercise Exercise may protect brain regions that are sensitive to neurodegenerationpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan Physical activity may help to protect brain regions that are sensitive to neurodegeneration, according to new research in NeuroImage: Clinical that …
Burnout Parental Burnout Can Lead to Harmful Outcomes for Parent and Childpsychologicalscience.org When the daily stress of parenting becomes chronic it can turn into parental burnout, an intense exhaustion that leads parents to feel detached from …
Psychology Power Is Both Good and Bad for Our Sexual Relationshipspsychologytoday.com - Madeleine A Fugère Ph.D. Lammers, J., Stoker, J. I., Jordan, J., Pollmann, M., & Stapel, D. A. (2011). Power increases infidelity among men and women. Psychological Science, …
Psychology Further Evidence That Acting Like An Extravert Can Boost Wellbeingbps.org.uk Researchers have long known that people who are more extraverted tend to be happier, leading some to suggest that encouraging extraverted behaviour …
Contraception Taking birth control pills as a teenager may lead to an increased risk for depression, even years after stoppingpsypost.org - Christine Anderl & Frances Chen, The Conversation The pill is one of the great success stories of modern medicine. When it became widely available in the 1960s, it helped to revolutionize the role of …
Health Workers Are Afraid to Take a Mental Health Dayscientificamerican.com - Ryan Bonnici On a recent morning, an employee came up to me. This employee was having either a panic attack or an anxiety attack (wasn’t sure which), and needed …
Science New Insights into Self-Insight: More May Not Be Betterscientificamerican.com - Lydia Denworth How useful is it, really, to know thyself? The idea that self-insight is good for us dates all the way back to the inscriptions on ancient Greece’s …
Emotional Well-Being Preferring to communicate via technology is associated with worse emotional functioningpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan People who prefer to use an electronic device to communicate with tend to have more problems with emotion regulation, according to new exploratory …
Science Emotionally Extreme Experiences, Not Just “Positive” or “Negative” Experiences, Are More Meaningful in Lifescientificamerican.com - Scott Barry Kaufman What does it take to live a meaningful life? In trying to answer this question, most researchers focus on the valence of the life experience: is it …
Anxiety Neuron growth protein could treat anxietysciencefocus.com - Amy Barrett A protein which triggers the growth of new neurons in the brain has been linked to reducing anxiety, a team of US researchers has found. The …
Telomere Study provides evidence that loving-kindness meditation slows cellular agingpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan In new research published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, scientists have shown that loving-kindness meditation has a positive impact at the cellular …
Childhood Abuse May Impact Development of Close Social Bonds as Adultspsychnews.org - noreply@blogger.com (Psychiatric News Alert) Adults who experienced significant abuse or neglect during childhood may exhibit a preference for more “personal space” and discomfort with some …
Apps Can Using Online Dating Apps Be Addictive?psychologytoday.com - Gwendolyn Seidman Ph.D. While online dating sites have been around since the 1990s, mobile dating apps are a more recent phenomenon, with Tinder leading the charge in 2012. …
What can trigger anxiety?Medical News Today - By Charlotte Lillis Anxiety is the feeling of fear, worry, or unease, which most people experience occasionally. The stressful or unfamiliar situations and events that …
A single ketamine infusion combined with mindfulness-based therapy shows promise in treatment of cocaine addictionpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan A single infusion of ketamine combined with mindfulness-based addiction treatment shows promise in the treatment of cocaine dependence, according to …
Study Offers New Insights On How Social Media Affects Girls' Mental HealthForbes - Alice G. Walton There’s little doubt that social media is not great for mental health. A new study offers a different explanation as to why the connection may exist.
