mental health
The “Mind After Midnight” hypothesis aims to explain why night owls tend to suffer more negative health outcomes.
What can elite athletes teach you about how to win?
Unplugging only ignores the hard work of overcoming your distractions.
When it comes to vetting people for friendship, body odor seems to be a decisive factor.
In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed “Baker-Miller Pink.”
It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.
It’s common knowledge that syncing your circadian rhythm to a natural light-dark cycle could improve your health and well-being.
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
Noradrenaline-targeting drugs, including blood pressure, depression, and ADHD meds, improve Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.
Most American men who die by suicide do not have any known history of mental health problems. So, what is to blame?
Symbolic gestures often speak to our psyche in ways no rational action could ever speak to our intellect.
Deaths of despair are skyrocketing in the U.S., while at the same time, they are falling in other wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong?
Digital nomads can fully immerse themselves in their surroundings while advancing their career and stimulating the local economy. But there is one potential downside.
Wearable technology can help increase lifespan by changing what we know about our dietary needs and creating new ways to exercise.
Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.
One theory for catatonia is that it is similar to an animal’s “death feint.”
Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.
Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
A large study links pornography use to decreased sexual performance for men and increased sexual performance for women.
If secrets are a kind of poison, confession is the antidote.
Instead of a mental illness, some research suggests that psychopathy — in moderation — is a reasonable life strategy.
The effects are even worse for women.