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A study could provide the answers to the questions researchers need to know when it comes to dementia and mental health conditions.
Data show that Canadian adolescents have faced serious mental health challenges in recent years. Now, a new national study suggests migrant girls may be among those most in need of support. While ...
A cross-sectional study of 900 nurses at a northern Taiwanese medical center found that high workplace incivility remained significantly associated with poor mental health, high personal burnout, and ...
Fathers higher in hostile sexism tended to have children who agreed more with hostile statements about women, while mothers higher in benevolent sexism tended to have children who agreed more that women need men’s…
The findings showed that children from disadvantaged backgrounds were more likely to experience low mood, anxiety, physical symptoms linked to stress.
Not all meditation may work the same way. In a trial of 147 adults, focused-attention and self-inquiry meditation produced similar drops in depressive symptoms, but exploratory analyses pointed to different underlying…
Young adults with weaker incoming connections to the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, a small region that helps regulate emotion, tended to report more depressive symptoms, according to brain scans of 890 healthy…
A large study reveals that unhealthy habits like excessive screen time and poor diet tend to group together in teenagers. These behavioral clusters strongly predict the future onset of combined anxiety and depression.
Can learning to read change how we think about other people’s minds? Among 76 Turkish women, reading fluency was the strongest predictor of performance on a test of reasoning about what one person thinks another…
A qualitative study of 33 resident trainees in China finds self-efficacy, well-being, burnout and professional identity change across training stages, supporting phased psychological interventions.
Scientists have discovered a surprising two-way relationship between sleep and growth hormone, revealing how the brain carefully balances physical recovery with wakefulness. The findings could help explain why poor sleep…
Medications like liraglutide help treat diabetes and obesity, but they also cause water loss. A new study reveals how these drugs directly lower levels of a key water-conserving hormone, altering chemical signals from…
Autism diagnoses have skyrocketed over the past few decades, prompting a debate among scientists. Is the biological rate of autism actually rising, or is society simply naming the condition more frequently?
Getting less than four hours of sleep severely reduces physical endurance, but not because your muscles tire out faster. A new study shows that sleep deprivation forces the brain to inefficiently rewire its neural…
Most psychedelic research has drawn well-off participants. In a first-of-its-kind Oregon study, 19 low-income adults with depression completed group psilocybin therapy, and their average depression scores fell by more…
In a field experiment involving more than 10,000 job applications in Germany, trans women who disclosed their identity or had male-coded facial features each received about 10 percent fewer positive responses from…
Many survey methods assume people weigh every feature of a candidate or policy. New research suggests most don’t: mental shortcuts dominated, and the strategy people used often shifted from one issue to the next.
Oxytocin is often called the "love hormone," but new research shows it can actually amplify negative childhood memories for people who experience relationship anxiety. The hormone appears to heighten our sensitivity to…
An exploratory UK study found that blinded continuous glucose monitoring was highly acceptable and feasible for people with serious mental illness and type 2 diabetes, with strong uptake, no adverse ...
Some adults’ brains look “older” than their age long before old age. In a study of 1,400+ people aged 18 to 65, older-looking brain patterns were linked to somewhat weaker working memory, more depressive symptoms, and…
A seven-year Ontario study of 56,836 psychiatric inpatients found that 8.2 percent were readmitted within thirty days of discharge and identified two distinct care concern profiles that could guide ...
ANALYSIS: A push from the Psychology Board to drop postgraduate study for psychologists has the sector worried that graduates will not be ready to treat people.
A large study of families suggests that a child's own DNA drives their ADHD traits by mid-childhood, finding no robust evidence that parents' genetics indirectly shape these behaviors through the household environment.
Does a nurse want a different kind of partner than an engineer? In a study of nearly 2,000 adults across seven countries, the industry people worked in had almost no link to what they prioritized in a partner.
We introduce an interesting paper on human behavior and decision-making from the fields of behavioral economics and psychology. This time, we look at the 2025 paper, "Shortening Psychological Scales: ...
In a retrospective analysis of PET-CT records from 101,243 patients, researchers found that detectable brown fat was associated with lower prevalence of cardiometabolic and psychiatric conditions, ...
By simulating human visual processing with a deep neural network, researchers have discovered a computational marker that predicts an adolescent's risk for developing depression up to four years before symptoms appear.
A preliminary EEG study found that artificial intelligence detected mental fatigue far more accurately when participants' brain activity was recorded while listening to music than in silence, ...
APS recently submitted comments on the NIH’s proposed changes to peer review based off of a working group recommendation. The proposed changes would hide the numerical score a grant receives from relevant…
Does living somewhere with lots of social freedom change whose worldview you share? New research suggests it does, mostly by pulling people’s minds away from contacts who don’t support their goals.
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