A new study published in The Journal of Immunology found that a high-salt diet (HSD) induces depression-like symptoms in mice by driving the production of a protein called IL-17A. This protein has previously been identified ...
Mar 25, 2025
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Have you ever felt a chill run down your spine while watching someone else in distress? This phenomenon, known as vicarious fear, allows us to experience fear by observing others—even when we are not in direct danger ourselves. ...
Mar 31, 2025
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has removed one hurdle faced by patients with schizophrenia when filling prescriptions for the antipsychotic medication clozapine.
Mar 3, 2025
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Making decisions in uncertain situations is part of daily life. New research from the University of Minnesota Medical School has uncovered that anxiety and apathy—two common but distinct emotional states—lead to fundamentally ...
Mar 4, 2025
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The severity of symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) varies greatly across individuals in the first year after trauma and it remains difficult to predict whether someone might worsen, improve, or recover.
Mar 10, 2025
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Taking a person's life is not automatically harmful to a soldier's mental well-being if the circumstances justified it, according to a study of more than 14,600 soldiers.
Mar 26, 2025
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As many as half of nursing home residents are cognitively impaired and may be unable to communicate symptoms such as pain or anxiety to the staff and clinicians caring for them. Therefore, information needed for the evaluation ...
Mar 11, 2025
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Gender-affirming hormone therapy may not only help transgender and nonbinary individuals physically—it could also improve their mental health, new research suggests.
Mar 18, 2025
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced it will no longer provide hormone therapy to veterans newly diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
Mar 18, 2025
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A certain degree of "extremism" is necessary for survival, according to social psychologists, who argue the personality trait is behind positive social developments.
Mar 4, 2025
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