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Teen Dislike of Physical Appearance Strong Predictor of Depression in Early Adulthood

Dec. 7, 2020 — Teens who are unhappy with their physical appearance are at significantly heightened risk of depression by the time they reach early ...

Rap Music Increasingly Mixes in Mental Health Metaphors

Dec. 7, 2020 — The proportion of rap songs that referenced depression, suicide and mental health struggles more than doubled between 1998 and 2018, according to a study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

Why Spending a Long Time on Your Phone Isn't Bad for Mental Health

Nov. 30, 2020 — General smartphone usage is a poor predictor of anxiety, depression or stress say researchers, who advise caution when it comes to digital detoxes. Researchers measured the time spent on smartphones ...

New Clues About the Link Between Stress and Depression

Oct. 2, 2020 — Researchers have identified a protein in the brain that is important both for the function of the mood-regulating substance serotonin and for the release of stress hormones, at least in mice. The ...

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New Compound Related to Psychedelic Ibogaine Could Treat Addiction, Depression

Dec. 9, 2020 — A non-hallucinogenic version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine, with potential for treating addiction, depression and other psychiatric disorders, has ...

Youth Depression Tied to Higher Risk of 66 Diseases and Premature Death

Dec. 9, 2020 — Depressed children and teenagers have an increased risk of suffering from premature death and a wide range of illnesses later in life. That is according to a large observational study. The findings ...

Machine Learning Identifies New Brain Network Signature of Major Depression

Dec. 7, 2020 — Using machine learning, researchers have identified novel, distinct patterns of coordinated activity between different parts of the brain in people with major depressive disorder -- even when ...

First Meta-Analysis Shows Promise for Yoga, Meditation, Mindfulness in Concussion

Nov. 30, 2020 — Chronic concussion symptoms are notoriously difficult to treat. But a researcher who is also a yoga instructor and has been teaching yoga for 17 ...

Mobility Behavior May Be the Key to Predicting, Promoting Individual Well-Being

Nov. 17, 2020 — A researcher uses smartphone sensor data to study human ...

Children Born Extremely Preterm Are More Likely to Be Diagnosed With Depression

Nov. 12, 2020 — A study using extensive nationwide registry data showed that girls born extremely preterm, earlier than 28 weeks gestational age, were three times ...

Study Finds Lasting Fatigue Common After COVID-19 Infection

Nov. 11, 2020 — More than half of people with acute COVID-19 infection continue to have persistent fatigue 10 weeks after their initial illness, according to a new ...

Lack of Positivity Bias Can Predict Relapse in Bipolar Disorder

Nov. 10, 2020 — Relapse in people with bipolar disorder can be predicted accurately by their tendency towards having pessimistic beliefs, according to a new ...

Outcome of 2016 US Election Associated With Poorer Mental Health in Clinton Voters

Nov. 2, 2020 — There were 54.6 million more days of poor mental health among adults in states that voted for Hillary Clinton in December 2016, compared to October ...

Genomic Study Reveals Role for Hypothalamus in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Oct. 29, 2020 — Using sophisticated 3D genomic mapping and integrating with public data resulting from genome-wide association studies (GWAS), researchers have found significant genetic correlations between ...