How much time do kids spend on devices – playing games, watching videos, texting and using the phone?

Up to 50% of US teens feel they are addicted to their devices. But help is out there.

Natalia Szura, Research Assistant in Psychiatry, Wayne State University • conversation
Oct. 23, 2023 ~8 min

Men’s antidepressant use has no negative impact on IVF success

New study reveals no correlation between anxiety, regardless of antidepressant use, and IVF outcomes or live birth rate.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Oct. 20, 2023 ~4 min


Poll: We do more ‘helicopter parenting’ than we think

New poll results indicate a gap between parents' views on independence for kids and their propensity for "helicopter parenting."

Beata Mostafavi-Michigan • futurity
Oct. 17, 2023 ~6 min

Not everyone’s mental health took a hit during COVID

Not everyone suffered a blow to their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We also found a lot of evidence of resilience."

Brandie Jefferson-WUSTL • futurity
Oct. 11, 2023 ~6 min

When fighting anxiety is worse than pointless

An emotion many avoid and view as an illness may actually help us thrive, psychologist David Rosmarin says.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 6, 2023 ~5 min

The 'Zoom effect' and the possible link between videochatting and appearance dissatisfaction

With our faces seemingly everywhere − from Zoom meetings to selfies − more people are developing anxieties about how they appear online.

Emily Hemendinger, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus • conversation
Oct. 5, 2023 ~9 min

How community gardening could ease your climate concerns

Could community gardening emerge as an effective method for addressing climate anxiety?

Jose Yong, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle • conversation
Sept. 28, 2023 ~8 min

Keeping your cool in a warming world: 8 steps to help manage eco-anxiety

A therapist shares advice for harnessing your stress over climate change and other environmental harms and putting it to work.

Karen Magruder, Assistant Professor of Practice in Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington • conversation
Sept. 18, 2023 ~8 min


Science backs these mind-body tools for cancer anxiety

A new set of national guidelines recommends that cancer patients use certain mind-body techniques to ease anxiety and depression.

Leslie Orr-Rochester • futurity
Sept. 7, 2023 ~4 min

If anxiety is in my brain, why is my heart pounding? A psychiatrist explains the neuroscience and physiology of fear

Although emotions like fear and anxiety originate in your brain, they ultimately travel through your body and make your heart race and your stomach twist.

Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University • conversation
Sept. 5, 2023 ~8 min

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