Mental Health

Alarming decline in children’s health and wellbeing predated pandemic, research reveals

The COVID pandemic affected several elements of youngsters’s health and wellbeing. The number of youngsters referred to specialist mental health…

11 months ago

Help for High-Conflict Couples

Having a healthy, loving and connected relationship is one of the crucial rewarding experiences.  Couples often start out in a…

11 months ago

Have smartphones created an ‘anxious generation’? Jonathan Haidt sounds the alarm

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s latest book The Anxious Generation delivers an urgent call for motion. Haidt argues that the…

11 months ago

Your AI therapist shouldn’t be your therapist: The dangers of counting on AI mental health chatbots

With current physical and financial barriers to accessing careindividuals with mental health conditions may turn to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots…

11 months ago

Mental illness in fathers may increase the danger of preterm birth – recent research

Mothers with a mental illness are more likely to provide birth too early, based on research. But the danger of…

12 months ago

Single dose of LSD highly effective at treating anxiety

LSD was by accident discovered by Albert Hofmann on the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently…

12 months ago

US drugs regulator gives LSD ‘breakthrough’ status for treating anxiety – why that is so significant

LSD was by accident discovered by Albert Hofmann on the Sandoz pharmaceutical company in Switzerland in 1938. It was apparently…

12 months ago

Friday essay: ‘black bile’, malaria therapy and insulin comas – a transient history of mental illness

  Possibly the earliest account of a disturbed mind is recorded in a 3,500-year-old Hindu text that describes a person…

12 months ago

Early indicators of dementia: 5 behaviour changes to search for after age 50

Dementia is commonly considered a memory problem, like when an elderly person asks the identical questions or misplaces things. In…

12 months ago

How corporate involvement in psychedelic research could threaten public safety

In the mid-Twentieth century, psychedelics were deemed illegal substances with little medical purpose, a high potential for abuse and an…

12 months ago