- Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered that reversing the modification of molecular messages at synapses in the human brain, may contribute to reversible mental health conditions such as anxiety, and memory diseases such as dementia. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scientists-gain-new-understanding-of-how-brain-cells-talk 13 comments science
- For anyone interested in making a donation in her memory, Daffney’s family asks that contributions be made in honor of "Shannon Claire Spruill" to National Alliance on Mental Illness, and or Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (links in comments) https://www.pwinsider.com/viewarticle.php?id=150606 5 comments squaredcircle
- While autistic individuals are less likely to use substances, those who do so are more likely to self-medicate for their mental health symptoms, according to new research from the University of Cambridge and published today in The Lancet Psychiatry. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/uoc-aim063021.php 7 comments science
- We Stand With Our Writer. Bandy Lee Sues Yale, Says University Fired Her Over Efforts to Expose Donald Trump’s Mental Illness https://www.dcreport.org/2021/03/23/we-stand-with-our-writer/ 29 comments politics
- Customized diets and lifestyle changes could be key to optimizing mental health, according to new research including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/bu-cda022521.php 6 comments science
- Fun with Square Numbers - high-school student Ben Robson explains his favourite mental math tricks for calculating square numbers and square roots. Awarded an 'honourable mention' in the Oxford University Maths Essay competition. https://tomrocksmaths.com/2020/05/28/fun-with-square-numbers/ 22 comments math
- Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being - The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/ 651 comments worldnews
- Finland: The world’s most robust study of universal basic income has concluded that it boosts recipients’ mental and financial well-being, as well as modestly improving employment https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/?rss=1 10 comments worldnews
- Universal basic income improves well-being and encourages work, Finland's pilot study finds. Those paid the income did better on jobs and mental health than control group in two-year study. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-basic-income-finland-trial-scotland-ubi-coronavirus-poll-a9504576.html 7 comments worldnews
- Dog walking helps students maintain their mental health at Sussex University, where a Dog walking society has been formed. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/newsbeat-51759043/i-was-struggling-at-university-until-i-started-dog-walking 4 comments science
- UK: Thousands of depression cases 'linked to universal credit'. A study has linked a spike in mental-health problems among the unemployed with the rollout of universal credit and other government welfare changes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51664792 22 comments worldnews
- A new review from Monash University provides some insight into how our brains are active as we drift into deep sleep, showing that some mental processing, learning and even un-learning can occur https://labdownunder.com/asleep-but-aware-how-our-brains-see-the-outside-world-when-we-shut-our-eyes/ 2 comments science
- A study by the University of Birmingham has shown that children who have experienced child abuse or neglect are four times more likely to develop serious mental illness such as psychoses, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/piis2215-0366(19)30369-4/fulltext 58 comments science
- A new study conducted by researchers from four different universities has disproved the proposition that the excessive use of smartphones is linked to increased mental health problems. https://thecollegepost.com/mental-health-digital-technology/ 40 comments science
- An international team led by the University of Washington and Stanford University has created a framework for how city planners and municipalities around the world can start to measure the mental health benefits of nature and incorporate those into plans and policies for cities and their residents. http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/07/24/how-to-consider-natures-impact-on-mental-health-in-city-plans/ 7 comments science
- Jeffrey Epstein Allegedly Shows There's an Even Darker Side to the Masters-of-the-Universe Mentality | Who else at the top of politics and big business represents the same? https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28324520/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-child-sexual-abuse/ 17 comments politics
- Religious and cultural beliefs may discourage many Latinos in the United States from seeking treatment for depression and other mental health disorders, a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study finds. https://news.rutgers.edu/mental-health-stigma-fueled-religious-belief-may-prevent-many-latinos-seeking-help/20190329#.xkniyejyrne 7 comments science
- University of Denmark study finds mental disorders more common in environments which lack green areas. The paper analysed children – specifically from birth to the age of 10 – and then correlated the findings against mental disorders which developed as they grew older. https://mygoodplanet.com/university-of-denmark/ 142 comments worldnews
- A large study led by University College London (UCL) has found that cheap, common physical health drugs could help treat serious mental illness (SMI) such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/common-drugs-treating-mental-illness/ 17 comments science
- Universal credit has become a serious threat to public health, doctors have said, after a study revealed that the stress of coping with the new UK benefits system had so profoundly affected claimants’ mental health that some considered suicide. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/15/exclusive-new-study-links-universal-credit-to-increased-suicide-risk 17 comments worldnews
- Universities’ main purpose is no longer learning, the UK higher education minister has said, as he calls for a greater focus on mental health issues. Sam Gyimah said that universities must give deliver emotional support for students alongside academic courses in order to “fulfil [their] purpose”. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/08/06/universities-main-purpose-no-longer-learning-minister-says-calls/ 8 comments worldnews
- Neuroscientists at Indiana University have reported the first evidence that non-human animals can mentally replay past events from memory. The discovery could help advance the development of new drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/s0960-9822(18)30434-2 12 comments science
- Chronic pain sufferers and those taking mental health meds would rather turn to cannabis instead of their prescribed opioid medication, according to new research by the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2017/02/27/given-the-choice-patients-will-reach-for-cannabis-over-prescribed-opioids/ 71 comments worldnews
- University of Toronto’s ‘anti-psychiatry’ scholarship is affront to science and could hurt mentally ill patients, critics say http://news.nationalpost.com/health/u-of-ts-anti-psychiatry-scholarship 3 comments worldnews
- Many smokers with serious mental illness want to kick habit | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/many-smokers-serious-mental-illness-want-kick-habit/ 9 comments science
- Pets should be considered a main rather than a marginal source of support in the management of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition, finds University of Manchester researchers. https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-016-1111-3 602 comments science
- Brigham Young University researchers found that the amount of sunshine, not temperature, pollution, or rain, matters the most to your mental and emotional health, after studying data archived by day for 16,452 adults, 6 years of therapy distress measures across 19 weather/pollution variables. http://jad-journal.com/article/s0165-0327(16)30655-3/abstract 18 comments science
- Aerobic exercise can significantly help people coping with the long-term mental health condition schizophrenia, according to a new study from University of Manchester researchers. http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08/11/schbul.sbw115 51 comments science
- Illinois has been without a state budget for over 8 months. Funding and financial aid is drying up (for MAP grants, mental health services, and more), universities are laying off hundreds of employees, and a passed budget doesn't seem to be happening soon. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-rauner-budget-madigan-zorn-perspec-0219-jm-20160218-column.html 10 comments politics
- World’s first safe ‘smart drug’ really does boost brain power – scientists: Brain enhancing 'modafinil' is the world’s first safe “smart drug” according to researchers at Oxford University and Harvard Medical School, who confirmed it really does enhance mental performance. http://www.rt.com/uk/312953-first-smart-drug-brain/ 3 comments worldnews
- Many mental illnesses reduce life expectancy more than heavy smoking: Serious mental illnesses reduce life expectancy by 10 to 20 years, an analysis by Oxford University psychiatrists has shown – a loss of years that's equivalent to or worse than that for heavy smoking. http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-05-23-many-mental-illnesses-reduce-life-expectancy-more-heavy-smoking 51 comments science
- An Oxford University researcher and author specializing in neuroscience has suggested that one day religious fundamentalism may be treated as a curable mental illness http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/kathleen-taylor-religious-fundamentalism-mental-illness_n_3365896.html 1477 comments worldnews
- Prospective Alzheimer’s drug builds new brain cell connections. Washington State University researchers have developed a new drug candidate that dramatically improves the cognitive function of rats with Alzheimer’s-like mental impairment http://news.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?action=detail&publicationid=33329&typeid=1 8 comments science
- "Keeping a secret doesn't just take a toll on your mental health -- it can also feel physically burdensome, a new study suggests. Researchers from Tufts University found that people who know of another's deep secret . . . were more likely to perceive certain tasks as more arduous." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/secret-physical-burden-mental-keeping-a-secret_n_1373287.html 3 comments science
- University of Minnesota professor is offering a $1,000 reward for the name and release of the medical records of the person Michele Bachmann says became mentally retarded after getting the HPV vaccine https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1774161132987&id=1808098284 4 comments politics
- agnotology — that is, culturally-induced ignorance or doubt . . . much of the modern right lives in a mental universe in which liberal elites hide the truth, and in which they, through their access to Fox News etc., know things the brainwashed masses don’t. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/agnotology/ 4 comments politics
- The American power structure has been set reeling by something that is simply outside the boundaries of their mental universe: a non-violent, non-sectarian, non-ideological, leaderless revolution by ordinary people. http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2083-cry-freedom-cairo-crowds-shred-the-lies-of-the-power-players.html 2 comments politics
- Professors at Harvard university say they have discovered a crucial meta-physiological effect. Being extremely good and moral - or conversely highly evil - actually confers mental and even physical powers on a person. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/04/strength-in-naughty-or-nice/ 135 comments science
- Mentally disturbed student shot in the head with an assault rifle by University of Florida police officer - the same officer was reprimanded for egging blacks in "high crime" areas of the city last year. http://www.ocala.com/article/20100309/articles/3091013 3 comments reddit.com
- Neuroscientists at Cambridge University have shown that running stimulates the brain to grow fresh grey matter and it has a big impact on mental ability. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/18/running-brain-memory-cell-growth 24 comments cogsci