PersonalityMar 23, 2025
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The exact mechanism by which narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) develops remains unknown. Research suggests that a ...
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Mental HealthMar 23, 2025
Patient Suicide in Hospitals: What’s Behind the High Numbers
Both preventable and sometimes unpredictable, suicides in hospitals represent a significant challenge for healthcare ...
Positive PsychologyMar 22, 2025
Does Money Really Make Us Happier?
It is often easy to equate money with happiness and success. But does money really buy us happiness? One study suggests it might.
MedicaidMar 22, 2025
Medicaid recipients struggle to find mental health care. Looming cuts could make it harder.
Charmeka Newton, a psychologist who has her own practice in Lansing, is passionate about serving Black and Hispanic patients.
Cognitive PsychologyMar 21, 2025
How the brain links related memories formed close in time
If you've ever noticed how memories from the same day seem connected while events from weeks apart feel separate, a new study reveals the reason: Our brains physically link memories that occur close in time not in the…
AddictionMar 21, 2025
Potential risk biomarkers found for schizophrenia resulting from cannabis use
A new study has analyzed and compared the fatty acids in the blood of individuals with schizophrenia, of those with cannabis use disorder and of those with both diagnoses, with the aim of shedding light on new biomarkers…
Social-skills trainingMar 21, 2025
Social Media and Mental Health: How to Stay in Control
If you’re Gen Z, social media has been part of your life forever. It’s how you connect, express yourself, and stay in the loop.
Clinical PsychologyMar 21, 2025
How neurodiversity can impact treatment of an eating disorder
“It makes me feel invisible, unimportant and like I don’t have a right to know myself. And just because someone has a nice ...
PolicyMar 21, 2025
All About Fiscal Policy: What It Is, Why It Matters, and Examples
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his ...
WorkplaceMar 21, 2025
How the Pandemic Transformed Workplace Mental Health Strategies
It seems nearly impossible to believe, but this month marks five years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and mandatory ...
Instructional psychologyMar 21, 2025
The Psychological Benefits of Spirituality
Faith and spirituality have long been integral to human experience, but their relationship with mental health has only recently ...
Mental HealthMar 20, 2025
West Pines Behavioral Hospital opens in Westminster, expanding access to behavioral healthcare
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In a significant ...
NeuropsychologyMar 20, 2025
AI-powered mammograms: A new window into heart health
Mammograms, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) models, may reveal much more than cancer, according to a new study. The findings highlight how these important cancer screening tools can also be used to assess…
Diversity & CultureMar 20, 2025
How family background can help lead to athletic success
Americans have long believed that sports are one area in society that offers kids from all backgrounds the chance to succeed to the best of their abilities. But new research suggests that this belief is largely a myth…
School & EducationMar 20, 2025
Insomniac fruit fly mutants show enhanced memory despite severe sleep loss
Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a new study. The paradox of enhanced memory despite sleep loss could be explained by protein kinase A…
Cognitive PsychologyMar 20, 2025
Why don't we remember being a baby? New study provides clues
Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can't, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don't hold onto these experiences because the part of the brain…
Child PsychologyMar 20, 2025
Take Our “Effect of Funding Loss” Survey
We understand the concerns and uncertainty surrounding the recent developments and potential budget reductions that could impact the autism community. Please know that the ASF is closely monitoring the situation […] The…
ResearchMar 20, 2025
Mental health crisis: Study finds anxiety and depression have surged to historic highs in young people
Before the pandemic, mental health issues among young people were already a growing concern, but large-scale global studies ...
Cognitive PsychologyMar 20, 2025
Parts of the brain that are needed to remember words identified
The parts of the brain that are needed to remember words, and how these are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at UCL.
Sport & PerformanceMar 20, 2025
Iga Swiatek's 'relationship' with psychologist questioned after outbursts on court: 'Boundaries have been crossed...'
Iga Swiatek has lately become a mainstay in controversy since her one-month doping ban last year. Now, the Polish tennis ace has ...
Health PsychologyMar 19, 2025
Sleepier during the day? For some older people, it's linked to twice the dementia risk
For women in their 80s, experiencing increasing sleepiness during the day over a five-year period is associated with double the risk of developing dementia during that time, according to a new study. The study does not…
AddictionMar 19, 2025
Can online games be an effective intervention to help adolescents reduce substance abuse?
For adolescents struggling with substance abuse, traditional in-person interventions such as counseling are not always effective, and rural areas often lack access to these services. A researcher is thinking outside the…
Child PsychologyMar 19, 2025
New Study Tracks Shift in Adolescent Mental and Behavioral Health
An analysis of high school students from 1999 to 2021 showed teens with low-risk behaviors grew from about 40% in 1999 to nearly ...
HIPAA & PrivacyMar 19, 2025
Why health care privacy is a mess — and why it isn't likely to get better soon
Editor's note: The IAPP is policy neutral. We publish contributed opinion and analysis pieces to enable our members to hear a ...
NeuropsychologyMar 19, 2025
Stroke rehabilitation drug repairs brain damage
A new study has discovered what researchers say is the first drug to fully reproduce the effects of physical stroke rehabilitation in model mice, following from human studies.
Mental HealthMar 19, 2025
Gender gap in teenage depression is twice as large in London than in Tokyo, new study finds
Research has tracked depressive symptoms in 7100 young people from Tokyo and London and shown girls have more depressive symptoms than boys in both cities. The study found that this gap is around twice as large in London…
AddictionMar 18, 2025
Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack
Marijuana is now legal in many places, but is it safe? Two new studies add to mounting evidence that people who use cannabis are more likely to suffer a heart attack than people who do not use the drug, even among…
Mental HealthMar 18, 2025
Climate change fuelling mental health crisis in areas most affected by climate crisis
Climate change is not just an environmental issue -- it's a mental health crisis impacting on adolescent wellbeing right now in areas most affected by climate change, according to new research.
TraumaMar 18, 2025
A rubber hand alleviates pain
If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help patients who suffer…
Mental HealthMar 18, 2025
Study finds unique brain changes linked to witnessing trauma
Researchers discovered distinct molecular differences in how the brain processes directly experienced versus witnessed trauma -- a finding that could lead to more targeted treatments for PTSD.