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Female lawyers more likely to report stress, risky drinking than male lawyers
Work-related factors impact the high rates of stress, risky drinking, and attrition in lawyers differently depending on gender, according to a study published May 12, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Justin Anker ...
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ED visits for pediatric mental health issues up during COVID-19
(HealthDay)—The proportion of emergency department visits for pediatric mental health (MH) conditions increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online April 30 in JAMA Network Open.
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New findings link brain's immune system to psychosis
New research at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden suggests a link between psychosis and a genetic change that affects the brain's immune system. The study published in Molecular Psychiatry may impact the development of modern ...
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Online CBT effective for social anxiety disorder in young people
Social anxiety disorder can cause considerable suffering in children and adolescents and, for many with the disorder, access to effective treatment is limited. Researchers at Center for Psychiatry Research at Karolinska Institutet ...
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Kids place moral value on money
Children who learn that a dollar is 'dirty' are apprehensive to take it, preferring instead to accept a dollar that does not have a negative moral history, a new study shows.
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Research reveals new approach to understanding our wellbeing
The ability to connect and feel a sense of belonging are basic human needs but new Swansea University research has examined how these are determined by more than just our personal relationships.
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Blitz data used to identify those at risk of mental illness following COVID
New research from the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has suggested that policy makers should utilize mental health data from the aftermath of the Blitz as a means of establishing ...
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Pregnant women's brains show troubling signs of stress, but feeling strong social support can break those patterns
Even before the pandemic, there was plenty for expectant mothers to worry about. Pregnant women must withstand a barrage of arguably well-intentioned, but often hyperbolic, warnings about their health and what's to come, ...
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A safe space: Medical researchers use virtual reality to reach youth
For years, Dr. Asher Marks, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and director of the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program at Yale New Haven Hospital, has urged his young patients to attend ...
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What does your voice say about you?
Everyone has at some point been charmed by the sound of a person's voice: but can we believe our ears? What can a voice really reveal about our character? Now an international research team led by the University of Göttingen ...
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Empathic and altruistic or cold and individualistic: Our brains reveal the truth
Are you empathic, generous and altruistic? In short, do you possess that specific personality trait defined as agreeableness in the language of psychologists? New research from SISSA recently published in the journal NeuroImage ...
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COVID-19 restrictions supported participants in weight loss program, but had negative impact on mood and behaviors
New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO2021, online, 10-13 May) concludes that the first lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic was an important driver in the motivation to lose weight in participants ...
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Focus on outliers creates flawed snap judgments
You enter a room and quickly scan the crowd to gain a sense of who's there—how many men versus women. How reliable is your estimate?
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New mothers twice as likely to have post-natal depression in lockdown
Almost half (47.5%) of women with babies aged six months or younger met the threshold for postnatal depression during the first COVID-19 lockdown, more than double average rates for Europe before the pandemic (23%), finds ...
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People are persuaded by social media messages, not view numbers
People are more persuaded by the actual messages contained in social media posts than they are by how many others viewed the posts, a new study suggests.
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Nature draws out a happy place for children
Young children in deprived areas see nature and outdoor spaces as being associated with 'happy places,' according to a new study published in the journal Child Indicators Research.
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Online CBT effective against OCD symptoms in the young
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents is associated with impaired education and worse general health later in life. Access to specialist treatment is often limited. According to a study from Center ...
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Study: Long-term benefits of mindfulness intervention to reduce stress, burnout
A new study is one of the first to show sustained benefits more than a year after completing a voluntary eight-week Mindfulness in Motion (MIM) intervention program offered by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center ...
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How to confront and overcome the discomfort of starting something new
COVID-19 catapulted our society on a mass scale into the online environment, and often we weren't prepared. Many of us were forced to equip ourselves with new skills and tackle new challenges.
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Does driving wear you out? You might be experiencing 'accelerousal'
Admit it: Daily commutes—those stops, the starts, all that stress—gets on your last nerve.
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