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Interactive Webpage Lets People Explore Their Risk of Developing a Mental Disorder
Mental illness doesn’t discriminate. It can affect children, college students, adults and the elderly. And unfortunately, after someone is diagnosed with a mental health disorder, the risk of developing another increases, a new study confirms. Although this initially comes off as bad news, the researchers were able to spin it into something positive that can… Read More
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Study Compares Excessive Social Media Use to Drug Addiction
Social media has taken the world by storm, making it so easy for people to stay connected. Facebook, alone, had 1.49 billion daily active users on average in September 2018. Snapchat had 186 million daily active users as of third quarter 2018. Instagram has more than 500 million daily active users worldwide. The use of… Read More
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Universities Struggle with the Spike in Emotional Support Animals
As reported cases of mental health conditions have increased on college campuses, so have the number of student requests for emotional support animals. Understandably, a loving animal companion can serve as a much-needed distraction for students suffering from anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. And since today’s students are generally more comfortable considering, discussing… Read More
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What Is the Carbon Footprint of Your Diet?
Before buying an item at the grocery store, people often pause to check its price and nutritional value, but they rarely consider how their meal and snack choices impact the environment. Although it has become widely known that the production of some foods, primarily meat, is bad for the environment, consumers have significantly underestimated just… Read More
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7 Free Mental Health Support Resources to Alleviate Holiday Depression
The holiday season is in full force. Some people wait all year for the festivities, gift giving and time with friends and family. But for many others, the holidays come with heightened feelings of loneliness, depression and anxiety. Watching friends and family embrace the holidays, while you feel unable to, can result in even greater… Read More
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Let Internet-Based Therapy Alleviate Your Holiday Depression
The holiday season is in full force. Some people wait all year for the festivities, gift giving and time with friends and family. But for many others, the holidays come with heightened feelings of depression and anxiety. Seeking medical help for mental health can be difficult, inconvenient and financially burdensome, especially around the holidays, when… Read More
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How to Manage Stress, Anxiety During Finals Week
We’ve all been there. There is only a week until break, but standing in its way are five days jam-packed with exams, final papers and projects. Stress, anxiety and depression are widespread at universities, and for many students, finals week can be the most difficult time of the year. Professors cram a semester’s worth of… Read More
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Students Who Sleep 8 Hours Score Higher on Final Exams
During exam week, pulling an all-nighter is staple study technique for college students. Professors cram a semester’s worth of material into one final test, and students think the best way to prepare is to stay up all night studying and loading up on caffeine. But new research shows that it might be time to change… Read More
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Is It Time to Treat Bigotry As a Public Health Problem?
Last Wednesday, four days before the start of Chanukah, Elizabeth Midlarsky, a holocaust scholar and professor at Columbia Teachers College, walked back to her office to find swastikas and the derogatory term “Yid” spray-painted on her walls. On Friday, a Hispanic father and son were beaten and bloodied outside of a tire shop in Salt… Read More
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New Report Links Climate Change to Health Problems, Premature Death
According to the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization, 2018 has marked the fourth hottest year on record for the Earth. Despite some who still may disagree, the World Weather Attribution Study for northern Europe showed that this summer’s heat wave was twice as likely to have happened as a result of man-made climate change. Of… Read More
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Study Proves You Feel Angry After a Rough Night’s Sleep
Skipping out on even a couple of hours of sleep can intensify anger, researchers from Iowa State University find. Whether it’s from work, school, stress or the alluring next episode of your favorite show, we’ve all skipped out on a full night’s rest and woken up the next morning on the wrong side of the… Read More
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Youth Culture Could Change Stigma of Mental Illness
Depression in young people, both adolescents and college students, is on the increase. Unfortunately, many of them remain undiagnosed and untreated. This is largely due to the stigma associated with mental illness. Recognizing the need to address this, the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health launched a campaign to promote community engagement with mental… Read More
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Social Media Is Contributing to Your Depression, Loneliness
Too much time on Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook could increase depression and loneliness, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania find. When social media first started, many people understood it as a platform to reconnect with far-away family and friends. But social media has since evolved. Celebrities, social influencers and even friends post pictures of expensive… Read More
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New Study Shows Evidence of Persistent Brain Damage in College Football Players
Football, America’s favorite contact sport, has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years as the link between the sport and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease that causes cognitive impairment, depression, memory loss, emotional instability and other psychological problems, becomes clearer. Evidence continues to build that repeated hits to the… Read More
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Alcohol Disrupts Memory Formation, Tricks People Into Addiction
A new study on fruit flies found that alcohol causes cravings by disrupting a memory formation pathway and changing proteins expressed in neurons — which may explain why alcohol addiction is so prevalent in humans. Researchers at Brown University used fruit flies as a model for the study because the molecular signals involved in forming… Read More
