mental health
This small-scale study may have uncovered a new link between the peripheral nerve system and autism.
Learn how to practice “self-indifference.”
Scrap getting fitter or eating better and focus more on the people in your life.
No, being interested in BDSM does not mean you had a traumatic childhood.
A large-scale meta-analysis aims to disprove the notion that pornography consumption causes sexual aggression and violence.
First, recognize that our genes make us worrywarts.
An excessive focus on past failures can make learning about new situtations more difficult.
There’s no such thing as a miracle drug.
While most of these deaths are driven by external factors, interventions can still help prevent them.
After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.
A new study shows that the top rap songs in the U.S. are making increasingly frequent references to depression and suicidal thoughts.
There is a lot we don’t know about psychedelics, but what we do know makes them extremely important.
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A new study explores the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic drug ibogaine, which has been used in Africa for centuries.
Psychedelic therapy will become legal in Oregon in 2023. That’s thanks largely to a renaissance of psychedelic research that’s changing attitudes on the substances’ medical potential.
How to deal with “epistemic exhaustion.”
The COVID-19 pandemic is making health disparities in the United States crystal clear. It is a clarion call for health care systems to double their efforts in vulnerable communities.
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.
Aligning your goals with deeply held values produces better results—in your career and life.
Social media seems to stress some people out. Maybe its time for a break?
The negative associations of introversion help to explain why loneliness now carries such social stigma.
While the benefits of music therapy are well known, more in-depth research explores how music benefits children with autism.
The study sheds new light on the relationship between sleep and mental health.
“Interacting” with nature through virtual reality applications had especially strong benefits, according to the study.
Noise pollution is terrible for our health, yet we don’t discuss it often enough.
From AI to climate anxiety, youth are speaking up about mental health.
A new survey also found that women executives believe imposter syndrome to be common among women in corporate America.
Creating a better understanding by clearing up common misconceptions about the neurodiversity movement.
The results of this study showed depressive symptoms being highest in adolescence, declining in early adulthood and then climbing back up again into one’s early 30s.