Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first study to compare effects of antidepressants with running exercises for anxiety, depression and overall health shows that they have about the same benefits for…
Tag: Psychology & Psychiatry
Benefits of psychedelics in obsessive-compulsive disorder: In search of evidence
Credit: Paris Brain Institute In recent years, interest in psychedelics and their possible benefit in treating psychiatric illnesses has been revived. Expectations are high, especially in obsessive-compulsive disorder, where patients’…
Calls for verbal abuse of children by adults to be formally recognized as form of child maltreatment
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new systematic review by researchers at UCL and Wingate University has highlighted the importance of identifying childhood verbal abuse by adults as a standalone subtype…
For the lonely, a blurred line between real and fictional people
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about…
LA County offers 3,000 new mental health and substance use treatment beds in bid to end lawsuit
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Facing the prospect of a trial neither side wanted, Los Angeles County and the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking more homeless services have proposed a settlement…
Flat-faced dogs might get more human help thanks to their baby faces
Credit: Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash Flat-faced or brachycephalic dogs breeds such as English and French bulldogs may be likely to display “helpless” traits by looking at humans more often than…
Job frustrations can really be a heartbreaker for men
A job that’s demanding but less than rewarding may take a big toll on a man’s heart health, a large new study suggests. The study, of nearly 6,500 white-collar workers,…
Study shows millions of people live with co-occurring chronic pain and mental health symptoms
According to new research from the University of Arizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center, nearly 1 in 20 adults in the U.S. deal with chronic pain while also…
Study finds peer religious discrimination harms mental health more than exclusionary organizational policies
Means for summed religious discrimination and victimization experiences by religious tradition. Credit: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2023). DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12871 Religious discrimination from one’s peers has a far…
Canadian older adults with COPD faced high levels of depression during the COVID pandemic
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new longitudinal study published online in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that older adults with COPD had a heightened risk of…
