Psychology
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How modern life is making us more stressed | Letter
Joel Snape’s article (What does stress really do to our bodies, 17…
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Books, Children, family, Health, Life and style, Mental health, Parents and parenting, Psychology, SocietyHow to become emotionally mature – at any age: ‘We often don’t realise the hurt we’re causing’
Around the time of the pandemic, a self-help book with a somewhat…
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Anxiety, depression, Digital media, Health, Health & wellbeing, Life and style, meditation, Mental health, Mindfulness, Music, Psychology, Science, Social media, SocietySound baths are supposed to help relax and ‘soothe’ your nervous system. But do any of these claims ring true? | Antiviral
I, for one, am partial to a bath: what’s not to love…
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ageing, Death and dying, Hamlet, Mental health, placebo effect, Psychology, Road transport, The Guardian, UK news, William Shakespeare, WineHamlet knew about the nocebo effect | Brief letters
Nocebo awareness is nothing new (I made my husband ill with a…
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alpha-synuclein, ambroxol, biomarker, Brain, exenatide, exercise, GLP-1 agonist, Neurodegenerative Diseases, parkinson’s disease, Prevention, prodromal, Psychology, RBD, REM sleep behavior disorder, sleepParkinson’s Disease Prevention: Prodromal Symptoms, RBD, Early Intervention Trials
Parkinson’s disease has a years-to-decades prodromal stage where motor symptoms haven’t yet…
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adolescents, AISS-D, binge eating, Body image, ChEDE-Q, dietary restraint, eating disorders, emotional regulation, obesity, personality traits, Psychiatry, Psychology, sensation seeking, teensSensation Seeking Predicts Disordered Eating in Teens
Sensation seeking has long been linked to risky behaviors in teens, but…
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attention, Bayesian inference, betrayal, borderline personality disorder, cognition, computational psychiatry, hysteresis, personality disorders, Psychiatry, Psychology, PTSD, social inference, theory of mind, trustHow Betrayal Biases Trust: Selective Attention, Distrust, and Social Judgment
Betrayal does not just make people less trusting. It can also change…
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Rage workouts: the best way to exercise – or just infuriating?
Name: Rage workouts. Age: Would this be a good time to invoke…
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assisted dying, base rate problem, epidemiology, euthanasia, mental health policy, Netherlands, psychiatric ethics, Psychiatry, Psychology, suicide, suicide-prevention, Werther effect, youth mental healthYouth Psychiatric Euthanasia in the Netherlands (Dutch Suicide Data)
The Netherlands has practiced euthanasia for mental suffering since the early 2000s,…
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Anxiety, depression, indirect trauma, media exposure, media literacy, Psychiatry, psychological effects, Psychology, PTSD, Social media, Stress, therapy, uncensored media, vicarious traumatization, war traumaUncensored Media Trauma and Modern Psychological Effects
The internet era has dramatically changed how people are exposed to traumatic…
