Risk of Schizophrenia Can Be Seen in Babies’ Brains
According to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University, brain scans of infants taken in the first weeks of…
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Stress of Combat May Lead Younger Soldiers to Alcohol Abuse
Military personnel who experience the stress of service in combat zones may, like anyone, attempt to self-medicate their stress away through abuse of alcohol. Excessive…
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New Hope for Alzheimer’s Treatments
In a major announcement, the biggest U.S. drug makers will share the results of research into treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, hoping to speed progress on…
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Anxiety in Children: Listen to Mom (Literally)
Talking to mom – even if it’s by phone – may be one of the best ways to calm nerves and relieve stress for young…
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Anxiety Relief: 8 Ways to Reduce Anxiety
Everyone suffers from anxiety now and then, but if you seem to be anxious more often than not, your health and your relationships may suffer…
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Over-Thinking Your Life
It is healthy to be reflective, self-aware and perceptive, as these traits can serve to improve your relationships and help you to reach your goals….
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Why It’s So Easy to Be Negative (and What to Do About It)
Negative events are sticky. In seventh grade, a classmate with whom I’d had very little interaction, Scott, walked up to my locker and offered me…
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4 Steps to Help Your Child Defeat Procrastination (Illustrated)
“I’ll clean my room tomorrow!” “It’s not due until next week!” “I’ll do my chores later!” They insist. They persuade. They don’t act. Watching your kids go through the…
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Moms Who Are Anxious Increase their Child’s Chance of Developing Anxiety
According to a study at the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University, mothers who are anxious increase their child’s chance of developing anxiety. In the study,…
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Anxious Men Father Anxious Daughters
According to a study of mice at Tufts University and published in Biological Psychiatry, women with anxiety may have their fathers to blame. When men are exposed…
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Three Mistakes Parents Make With Anxious Children
As a parent of a child with anxiety, you want your child to be happy and feel better. What you don’t want to do is…
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Child Anxiety and Watching Television
It is no revelation to hear that television plays a significant role in a child’s development. How much of a role and what effect it…
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Video Game Alleviates Teen Depression
Video games represent a choice leisure activity and hobby for many kids, but games may have a lot more going for them than just their…
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Why Older People Are More Apt to Forgive and Forget
People become happier as they get older, according to recent research. Happiness significantly rises for the over 50-crowd, and while physical health may decrease as…
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Happiness in the Golden Years: Live and Learn
Everyone has regrets. Now, researchers can tell us what types of things people regret the most. Researchers from Germany set out to examine the ways in which…
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Depression – A Whole-Body Disorder
People tend to think of depression as a mental illness, but new research shows that depression and other psychological disorders affect the body as much…
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Measuring the Happiness of Nations – Is it Possible?
On Monday April 2, the United Nations implemented Resolution 65/309. The resolution, adopted at the impetus of the Kingdom of Bhutan, calls for day long…
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Mental Health Care Cuts Could Create Care Crisis
Mental health care services around the country are being cut at a rapid pace thanks to the economic condition of the country. From California to…
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We’re All Crazy Now?
‘Normal’ is a word that may not apply to very many people, say mental health experts, when the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…
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Housing the Homeless Without Giving Them Services: Innovative or Unethical?
Project 50, a service program launched by the L.A.’s county supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, was an initiative to find and house 50 of skid row’s worst…
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Nature Improves Stress and Mental Health
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
