With much of the world practicing varying degrees of social distancing and lockdown, researchers have been investigating the key to happiness in isolation.
Date Posted: January 12, 2021
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Early adulthood, a transitional life stage marked by major changes in social roles and responsibilities, can bring with it an increase of mental health problems. A team of McGill University researchers has found that young adults who perceived ...
Jan 5
Categories: Child Development
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What do you do if your child comes home with a lower score on a test than you both expected? Do you praise their efforts and focus on what they got right? Or do you home in on the answers that they got wrong, hoping this will help them to do better ...
Dec 21
Categories: Parenting
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Depression is a mental disorder that affects more than 264 million people of all ages worldwide. Understanding its mechanisms is vital for the development of effective therapeutic strategies. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and the CNRS ...
Dec 19
Categories: Depression, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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No matter how much you love your partner, there are always going to be things about them that get on your nerves. These can be fairly superficial - not liking the way they fold the laundry, for example, or hating their favourite TV show. Other ...
Dec 14
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative study by UC San Francisco neuroscientists with the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
Dec 7
Categories: Dyslexia
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The evidence for the harmful effects of alcohol on brain health is compelling, but now experts have pin-pointed three key time periods in life when the effects of alcohol are likely to be at their greatest.
Dec 5
Categories: Addictions
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There are many reasons why you might want to give someone chocolate on Valentine's Day. There's the tradition of it, and the idea of sweets for your sweetheart. Here's another tempting reason: certain compounds in chocolate, called cocoa flavanols, ...
Nov 30
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Video games get blamed for a lot. There are long-standing debates about whether violence in video games leads to real-world aggression, or whether video game "addiction" is something we should worry about. And some people have broader fears that ...
Nov 26
Categories: Addictions
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An online questionnaire survey completed by 3,000 adults in in Tokyo, Japan, quantified the link between five mental-health outcomes (depression, life satisfaction, subjective happiness, self-esteem, and loneliness) and two measures of nature ...
Nov 20
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Being able to feel empathy and to take in the other person's perspective - these are two abilities through which we understand what is going on in the other person's mind. Although both terms are in constant circulation, it is still unclear what ...
Nov 17
Categories: Empathy
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Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days.
Nov 11
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Margaret Thatcher famously boasted that she only needed to sleep four hours a night, as has Donald Trump - though whether that bolsters or damages the prestige associated with sleepless nights probably depends on your politics.
Nov 10
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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Increasing the amount of time spent asleep immediately after a traumatic experience may ease any negative consequences, suggests a new study conducted by researchers at Washington State University's Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
Oct 27
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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One in four adults reported a change in alcohol use almost immediately after stay-at-home orders were issued, according to a study of twins led by Washington State University researchers.
Oct 21
Categories: Addictions
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1750.
Franklin was writing over 250 years ago. Surely we humans have learned strategies since then to aid self-insight ...
Oct 19
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