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A new study of 5,515 US adolescents found that higher daily step counts were linked to fewer mental health problems and subtle differences in brain structure a year later.
GUT-FEELINGS is part of ARPA-H’s Evidence-Based Validation & Innovation for Rapid Therapeutics in Behavioral Health initiative ( EVIDENT ), which is focused on finding objective measures of mental ...
Researchers found five events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, caused serious damage to mental wellbeing across UK ...
Older adults who struggled to afford enough food had roughly twice the odds of screening positive for probable dementia, according to a study that tracked more than 2,000 Americans from middle age into older age.
Shared family factors, such as genes and upbringing, are likely to explain a large part of the link between high screen use and mental health problems ...
Drinking problems may be a risk factor for reoffending that good social and cognitive skills don't offset, suggests a study of nearly 7,800 Canadian men who had perpetrated intimate partner violence.
A new meta-analysis reveals that while ADHD and autism both feature atypical brain responses to rewards, the underlying neural activity goes in completely opposite directions, providing biological clues to their distinct…
Amanda Paluch, associate professor of kinesiology, was one of the co-authors of the study, which involved more than 5,500 adolescents in 21 locations across the U.S.
A cross-sectional study of 300 nurses in Türkiye finds that better work-family-life balance and higher psychological resilience are associated with fewer mental health symptoms.
Conservatives tend to report more rigid thinking styles than liberals, but that doesn't appear to make them more likely to follow their party's lead. Across dozens of issues, both groups shifted toward their party's…
A recent experiment found that physical attractiveness does not protect internet trolls from judgment. When encountering online misogyny, users rely on the severity of the message itself rather than being swayed by the…
People with a strong preference for intensely sweet tastes tend to choose immediate, smaller rewards over delayed ones. New research suggests this impatience is largely explained by a general aversion to risk rather than…
Researchers exploring Functional Neurological Disorder found that while genetics alone don't explain the condition, epigenetic markers and salivary oxytocin levels interact in ways that align with a patient's history of…
Blocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery could help researchers…
People who view the world as devoid of meaning are more likely to support political violence. A new study suggests that simple exercises to find everyday meaning could help reduce these violent extremist intentions.
Researchers have successfully trained computer models to decode the structure of imagined melodies from human brain waves. By tracking relative pitch, the models reconstructed the melodic contours of silent songs…
Winning a lottery prize of about $140,000 made single Swedish men roughly 30 percent more likely to marry within five years. For married women, a similar windfall nearly doubled the short-term risk of divorce.
Cannabinoids may intensify anxiety by removing a natural brake on specific neurons in the brain’s fear center, particularly during stressful situations. In mice, shutting down those neurons sharply reduced…
Taking more daily steps at ages 11 and 12 was linked to fewer mental health problems a year later during early teenage, research has shown. The findings, ...
… David Strayer, a professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah, co-authored a 2025 study that investigated how movement in nature influences brain activity. “We took measurements at the trail head
SimplePractice, the leading platform powering independent mental health practitioners, and Heard, the financial management platform built for therapists in private practice, today released the 2026 ...
In a small psilocybin trial for alcohol use disorder, people who stayed alcohol-free three months later tended to describe an inner dialogue during their session, while those who returned to drinking talked more about…
A new analysis of the 2024 U.S. presidential election reveals how TikTok’s design encourages candidates to use short, emotional, and performance-based videos. The study highlights how algorithmic platforms favor rapid…
More than half a century after the October War, its psychological scars persist among some Israeli veterans, with a recently published study finding stronger trauma symptoms during renewed conflict ...
The orgasm gap shows up in Italy too: men reported more frequent orgasms than women. Among women, orgasm frequency was more closely tied to sexual satisfaction and oral sex, a new study finds.
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Long before he became famous as the author of The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt was a social psychologist whose work revolutionized the field. In this episode of The Permanent Questions, taped in front of a
Male managers who have a first daughter tend to hire more women and raise female employees' share of earnings, according to new research. The shift happens almost immediately and has no detectable impact on company…
New research led by the University of Oxford and supported by Medical Research UK and Arthritis UK highlights the importance of regular mental health assessments and greater support for teenagers living with chronic…
A new study reveals how dopamine and insulin receptors interact in the brain's emotional center to regulate compulsive eating. These findings offer biological clues to the strong link between food addiction and metabolic…
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