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Mitochondria May Be Missing Link Between Mental Health and Brain Function
The bean-shaped organelles are now being recognized for their part in immune signaling, stress responses, and neural functioning.
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Student Notebook: AI As a Tool, Not As a Therapist
How do the advantages of using artificial intelligence for mental health stack up against its weaknesses?
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A New Antidote for Youth Loneliness: Sharing Data About the Kindness of Others
The college years once ranked among the happiest times of most people’s lives, but that’s changed. Young adults face an escalating mental health crisis, fueled in part by loneliness. In 2023, 19% of young adults
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Why Are ADHD Rates On the Rise?
In some parts of the world, record numbers of people are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In the United States, for example, government researchers last year reported that more than 11% of
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Study Finds Mental Health Benefit to One-Week Social Media Break
Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published on Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open. … One group of
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How Language Shapes Mental Health
The impacts of language on depression and anxiety symptoms in Japanese English bilingual people are explored in a new study from Clinical Psychological Science.