Transgender medicine – what care looks like, who seeks it out and what's still unknown: 3 essential reads

Across the US, politicians, activists and transgender people are fighting over the right to access transgender medical care. Rarely is the care itself actually discussed. This is that discussion.

Daniel Merino, Assistant Editor: Science, Health, Environment; Co-Host: The Conversation Weekly Podcast • conversation
June 23, 2021 ~10 min

Flawed data led to findings of a connection between time spent on devices and mental health problems – new research

You're probably wrong about how much time you spend on your devices, and that has big implications for the link between device use and mental health.

Craig J.R. Sewall, Postdoctoral Scholar of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
June 23, 2021 ~9 min


Study shows brain differences in interpreting physical signals in mental health disorders

Researchers have shown why people with mental health disorders, including anorexia and panic disorders, experience physical signals differently.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 22, 2021 ~5 min

Teenagers at greatest risk of self-harming could be identified almost a decade earlier

Researchers have identified two subgroups of adolescents who self-harm and have shown that it is possible to predict those individuals at greatest risk almost

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 15, 2021 ~6 min

Opioid overdoses spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, data from Pennsylvania show

The start of one new public health crisis didn't mean the end of another.

Ruchi Patel, Ph.D. Student in Geography, Penn State • conversation
June 14, 2021 ~8 min

Harvard Medical School professor discusses future of psychedelics

Massachusetts General Hospital’s new Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics aims to better understand psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes.

Alvin Powell • harvard
June 10, 2021 ~19 min

Mental health: pressure to return to the office could be making employees more anxious

Over half of respondents in a recent study hadn't been asked for their opinions about returning to the office.

Sunita Sah, KPMG Professor of Management Studies, University of Cambridge • conversation
June 3, 2021 ~5 min

One in twenty workers are in ‘useless’ jobs – far fewer than previously thought

The so-called ‘bullshit jobs theory’ – which argues that a large and rapidly increasing number of workers are undertaking jobs that they themselves recognise

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 3, 2021 ~8 min


Pregnancy during COVID-19 lockdown: How the pandemic has affected new mothers

Pregnant women's experiences can affect their babies' health, even into adulthood. Researchers know societywide stresses can lead to these long-term consequences – and the pandemic likely fits the bill.

Alyssa Morris, Ph.D. Student in Clinical Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • conversation
May 19, 2021 ~10 min

How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans

Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.

Christina Pazzanese • harvard
May 13, 2021 ~16 min

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