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Music mindfulness may treat symptoms of anxiety and depression

Listening to music while performing mindfulness exercises targets neural and cardiac mechanisms in the brain that may treat symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to a new study led by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

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Survey: 43% of Americans say money is negatively impacting their mental health

Paige DeVriendt, a 32-year-old living in Columbus, Ohio, has spent most of her life associating money with shame and anxiety.

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US researchers seek to legitimize AI mental health care

Researchers at Dartmouth College believe artificial intelligence can deliver reliable psychotherapy, distinguishing their work from the unproven and sometimes dubious mental health apps flooding today's market.

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Experiment sheds new light on the origins of consciousness

An experiment seven years in the making has uncovered new insights into the nature of consciousness and challenges two prominent, competing scientific theories: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace ...

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Global study investigates whether humans flourish with age

Insights into whether people from different cultures and societies from around the world are flourishing—a state in which all aspects of a person's life are good—are presented in series of papers from the Global Flourishing ...

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Adult acne increases risk of eating disorders, study indicates

People with acne are at increased risk of developing an eating disorder, a new study says. Adult acne patients are 2.4 times more likely to have an eating disorder, researchers reported recently in the Journal of the European ...

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Research opens doors of access to youth mental health services

University of Alberta students, researchers and community members helped shape a cross-Canada initiative that has improved the way youth mental health services are delivered across the country, allowing more patients to be ...

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Exercise may yield improved sleep quality in women with PTSD symptoms

High-intensity exercise can improve sleep quality—possibly by reducing anxiety and hyperarousal symptoms—in women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, according to new research from the University of Georgia's ...

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Understanding sudden unusual mental or somatic experiences

Matthew Sacchet, Ph.D., Director of the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a paper in Clinical Psychological ...

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Rat study explores the motivations behind helping friends

Why are some people more helpful than others? In a new JNeurosci paper, Inbal Bartal, from Tel Aviv University, and colleagues used rats to explore why some individuals may be more receptive to the distress of others and ...

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What happens in the brain when your mind blanks

Mind blanking is a common experience with a wide variety of definitions ranging from feeling "drowsy" to "a complete absence of conscious awareness." In an opinion article published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, a team ...

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Babies follow social cues despite trauma, study finds

Babies living as refugees have some of the same social skills as children with more secure home conditions. This is shown by a new study that researchers from Uppsala University have conducted in cooperation with colleagues ...

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Our brains can communicate wordlessly, through our eyes

McGill researchers have demonstrated something long assumed: that glances can transmit information about one's mental state to others without a single word being exchanged. They speculate that this primal ability may have ...