mental-health
4 stories tagged "mental-health"
The 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.
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.