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A learner stands in a room with a bottle, a cup and a book. The task is to figure out, step by step, where each object belongs in the room. Under the table? Or perhaps on the chair? A humanoid robot gives the…
Minority groups often reclaim offensive slurs as a tool for empowerment. However, newly published research has found that exposure to reclaimed homophobic language causes psychological distress in minority listeners and…
Posted July 24, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods Many leaders erroneously assume that their employees should structure work in the same way they do if they want to be successful. The truth is that employees’ ideal work…
A new study reveals that detailed personalized feedback from humanoid robots causes immediate cognitive overload after errors, slowing immediate recovery despite improving long-term task performance.
Lisa Meyer Counseling & Consulting today highlighted new professional observations regarding the “efficiency gap” currently impacting the mental health landscape. The Cumming-based practice reports ...
Posted July 24, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods Of the hundreds of psychological and emotional conditions, childhood emotional neglect is, in my opinion, among the least widely understood. That's because we have spent…
Scientists have long known that expectations can reduce pain. What remained unclear was whether different ways of generating placebo effects rely on the same biological mechanisms. A new study published in Nature…
In April, Storms' ex-husband was granted an emergency restraining after he told a judge the actress was dealing with a "mental health crisis." ...
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A dream vacation, an exotic destination, a long-haul flight and finally some well-deserved rest. The problem is that many travelers arrive at their destination only to spend the first days of their vacation struggling…
TOKYO -- A record 1,319 teachers at public elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan left their jobs because of mental illness in fiscal 2024.・・・ ...
A new study reveals that greater Japanese horseshoe bats asymmetrically adjust their echolocation call frequencies to align with colony mates.
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new chemical approach that could help make targeted cancer medicines safer and more precise. The discovery gives scientists a new way to design drugs that bind more…
Posted July 24, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods A new genre of video has begun appearing in my social media feeds: “Ten years of therapy summarized in one minute.” “Forty-five years of therapy in sixteen minutes.”
(MedPage Today) -- Actor William Shatner, Captain Kirk on the original "Star Trek" television series, and his real-life daughter talk about surviving advanced cancer. (ABC News) Texas cancer centers spent billions to…
Most everyday moments are quickly forgotten, while others stay with us for a lifetime. How the brain determines which memories are retained and which are lost remains an open question.
Many people have an uncanny attraction, a kind of unconscious radar or heat-seeking missile, for members of the opposite sex (or sometimes same sex) who blatantly or subtly resemble—psychologically if not physically—the…
Companies accused of recklessly marketing and distributing prescription opioid painkillers are paying roughly $58 billion to settle lawsuits over their role in fueling the addiction crisis. It’s a pot ...
Unusual behavior in the cells of mothers and babies with preeclampsia may provide new therapeutic targets for the condition, a new UCL-led study finds.
A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted Thursday to let specialized pharmacies produce and sell four peptide treatments the agency banned three years ago.
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy, which reprograms an individual's immune cells to seek out and destroy certain cancer cells, has revolutionized treatment for blood cancers such as lymphoma. But in some…
Before physical signs of puberty appear, invisible hormonal shifts may trigger emotional distress in young girls. A new study finds that increasing testosterone between ages 10 and 12 predicts a higher risk for anxiety…
A new study links six or more hours of daily social media use to a two-fold increase in anxiety and a three-fold increase in suicidal ideation among youth.
Free Aug. 1 event at Jaisohn Community Wellness Plaza will bring together youth, parents, educators and mental health professionals for […] ...
Posted July 24, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Co-authored by Ceolla Dillon O’Rourke, Aoife Ní Chíobháin, and Michael Hogan. In education, collaborative learning is valued as a way to build the key collective…
Teenagers who spent six or more hours a day on social media were twice as likely to experience symptoms of anxiety and three times as likely to report suicidal ideation than those who spent less than one hour on social…
Researchers in Korea have developed a new near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent dye with significantly improved photostability, overcoming the rapid signal fading that has long limited fluorescence imaging during surgery for…
By measuring allele frequency changes across adult age groups, the team identified 168 variants under active selection, including 71 pathogenic mutations under purifying selection.
A volunteer was injected Friday with the first dose of a rapidly developed vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola driving a deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Oxford University said.
Scientists at the Institute of Biochemical Sciences at National Taiwan University have uncovered how tiny genetic changes can disable one of the body's most important tumor-suppressing proteins. Their study, published in…