Mental health
Taking a stroll through a city can provide numerous benefits for physical and mental well-being, particularly if you pay attention to your surroundings and find the right path. Environmental psychologists and researchers have discovered that walking in urban areas, even with human-made elements, can have a positive impact on mental
Mental health
Taking a stroll through a city can provide numerous benefits for physical and mental well-being, particularly if you pay attention to your surroundings and find the right path. Environmental psychologists and researchers have discovered that walking in urban areas, even with human-made elements, can have a positive impact on mental
Mental health
Taking a stroll through a city can provide numerous benefits for physical and mental well-being, particularly if you pay attention to your surroundings and find the right path. Environmental psychologists and researchers have discovered that walking in urban areas, even with human-made elements, can have a positive impact on mental
Mental health
Taking a stroll through a city can provide numerous benefits for physical and mental well-being, particularly if you pay attention to your surroundings and find the right path. Environmental psychologists and researchers have discovered that walking in urban areas, even with human-made elements, can have a positive impact on mental
Mental health
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland has published a review of the deliverability of the Mental Health Strategy (MHS) 2021-2031's actions over the next three years. The review comes as a result of the Public Accounts Committee's report highlighting a substantial funding shortfall against the
Child health
Investigators from the Institute for Maternal and Child Health-IRCCS 'Burlo Garofolo' conducted a study to investigate the association between dietary habits and anxiety and depression symptoms in children. The study used data from the Italian multicenter Piccolipi & ugrave; birth cohort, analyzing the dietary habits of 1726 children
Language models (Artificial intelligence)
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), have demonstrated potential for mental health applications, including the automated detection of depressive symptoms from natural language. Researchers at Psychiatric University Hospital have fine-tuned a German BERT-based LLM to predict individual Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) scores using a regression
Meditation
Researchers at Beijing Normal University conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying loving-kindness and compassion meditation (LKCM) interventions for mental health. The study, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, involved 51 female college students who were randomly assigned to either the LKCM group
Mental health
Recent research at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine has revealed the profound impact of early life adversity (ELA) on brain function, increasing the risk of physical and mental disorders into adulthood. The study, which has been peer-reviewed, employed longitudinal manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) to track
Mental health
The recent World Mental Health Day failed to adequately address the alarming rates of depression and suicide in South Africa, despite the increasing number of mental health issues plaguing the nation. A safe environment, access to basic resources, and a sense of community are essential indicators of happiness, but the
Mental health
When you grew up in a household plagued by constant conflict, you may have learned to cope by becoming overly helpful and people-pleasing. This pattern, known as the "fawn response," is a survival strategy that can be harder to break than you think. Carmel, a wonderful neighbor who
Clinical trials
Current research from the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center in Suita, Japan, suggests that existing treatments for dementia may only delay cognitive deterioration without improving cognitive function. This conclusion is based on preliminary findings from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 60 patients with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia.
