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16 stories tagged "mental-health"
The WHO Asked the World to Listen to Mental Health Patients. By Its Own Count, Half Were Committed Against Their Will.
The WHO built this year's World Mental Health Day around putting patients in charge of policy. Its own 2024 atlas reports 49% of reported admissions are involuntary and nearly a quarter of hospital stays run past a year.
Metabolic & WeightThe 'Exercise Together' Marriage Study Couldn't Separate Couples Workouts From Solo Ones
BYU's survey of 1,693 young married couples is being sold as proof that working out together strengthens a marriage. Spouses who exercised alone showed a pattern the statistics couldn't tell apart, and all of it came from a single snapshot.
Brain & AgingScientists Watched a Cannabinoid Cut the Brake on Fear Neurons in Mice
In mice, a synthetic cannabinoid switched off the inhibition holding a cluster of fear neurons in check, and higher doses plus stress released that brake together. It is a possible mechanism for why a heavy high can curdle into dread.
Brain & AgingCounting Your Kid's Screen-Time Hours Is Measuring the Wrong Thing
Follow 4,285 kids for four years and the hours on the clock were not associated with suicidal thoughts or behavior. A compulsive, can't-stop pattern of use tracked with more than double the risk.
Brain & AgingA Helsinki Team Sorted Depression Into Five Brain Patterns. The Last Famous Attempt Collapsed on Replication.
A Helsinki team used magnetic brain scans to sort 263 depressed patients into five connectivity profiles, then said the scans still can't pick anyone's treatment.
Brain & AgingWhen the Shocks Stopped, People With Insomnia Got More Aroused, Not Less
In a third analysis of the same Boston volunteers, people with insomnia grew more aroused once the shocks stopped. The signal showed up only after engineers modeled the slow background sweat, and the next-day test missed significance.
Brain & AgingFeeling Fine in Pregnancy Was No Shield Against Dirty Air's Link to Postpartum Depression
Among 475 Mexico City mothers, each 5 microgram per cubic meter rise in fine-particle pollution during pregnancy tracked with 2.67 times the risk of depression symptoms that first appeared after birth. The link was stronger in women who reported little stress.
Brain & AgingAutistic Teenagers Are Bullied Three Times as Often, and We Have Barely Studied How to Protect Them
Autistic teenagers are bullied roughly three times as often as their peers, and the sexual-victimization risk that shadows them into adulthood is just as real, yet the research meant to protect them is small, scattered, and looking the other way.
Brain & AgingThey Didn't Rewrite the Memory. A Flinch of Surprise Predicted Who Got Better.
Polish researchers had 180 young adults imagine a defender stepping into a painful childhood memory. The rewrite itself helped only modestly. What predicted who improved was an involuntary jolt of surprise, measured in the skin, when the expected blow never came.
Brain & AgingIn Mice, Early-Life Stress Writes a Molecular Mark Onto the Brain's Reward Neurons. Turn One Enzyme Down, and It Never Sets
Early-life stress raises an enzyme called SETD7 in the brain's dopamine neurons, loosening the DNA around stress genes so they fire too easily into adulthood. When researchers blocked it in mice, the stressed animals did not develop the same anxiety-like stress sensitivity, and stayed as social and
Brain & AgingIn Depressed Brains, the New-Neuron Supply Had Stalled Where Fresh Pain Gets Sorted From Old
Columbia researchers mapped nearly 500,000 cells from postmortem brains and found the depressed ones showed a stalled supply of new hippocampal neurons, the cells thought to keep a fresh setback from merging with every old one.
Brain & AgingThe Stress Hormone Was Already High Before Daily Cannabis Users Woke Up
Oregon State measured the morning stress hormone in 39 daily users and 43 non-users. The people reaching for cannabis to unwind started every day with cortisol already running higher, and it tracked with the cannabis-related consequences they reported.
Brain & AgingEurope's Wildfire Smoke Has a Second Blast Radius: Stopped Hearts and Mood-Disorder ER Visits Far From the Flames
When California's wildfire PM2.5 climbed, depression ED visits rose 15 percent and mood-disorder visits 29 percent up to a week later, and per microgram that smoke was tied to larger health effects than ordinary city smog.
InvestigationsNearly Half of America's ER Substance-Use Visits Involve Someone the Justice System Already Booked
Forty-four percent of Americans who go to an emergency room for substance use have a booking in their past. A survey of 139,524 people measured how much the jail and the ER share a population.
InvestigationsThe AI Models Just Failed the Clinical Test We Use to Spot Executive Dysfunction
A new PNAS Nexus study put the same Stroop task neuropsychologists use to screen for executive dysfunction in front of GPT-5, Claude Opus, and Gemini. The accuracy collapse arrives months after the FDA quietly loosened oversight of AI clinical decision support.
Brain & AgingMiddle-aged Americans Are Weaker, Lonelier, and Forgetting More Than Their Parents Did at the Same Age
A 17-country study finds U.S. adults in their 50s are doing worse on memory, grip strength, loneliness, and depression than their parents were. The United States is the only country going meaningfully backward.