Can music improve our health and quality of life?

New research shows the use of music interventions — listening to music, singing, and music therapy — can create significant improvements in mental health, and smaller improvements in physical health-related quality of life.

Lorrie Kubicek • harvard
July 26, 2022 ~3 min

Optimism lengthens life, study finds

Women who reported a positive outlook were likelier to live past 90, regardless of race or ethnicity.

Harvard Chan School Communications • harvard
June 8, 2022 ~3 min


Living through COVID may affect brains of the uninfected

New study reveals that living through the COVID-19 pandemic may trigger brain inflammation that contributes to fatigue, concentration difficulties, and depression.

Tracy Hampton • harvard
Feb. 23, 2022 ~4 min

Is a mobile app as good as seeing a therapist?

A closer look at the mental health apps that claim to treat depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses.

Stephanie Collier • harvard
Feb. 8, 2022 ~3 min

Mental health professionals push slow return post-COVID

A Harvard Chan School psychologist counseled awareness and flexibility as people return to work, school, or other pre-pandemic activities.

Alvin Powell • harvard
July 1, 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

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

Lessons from Katrina on how pandemic may affect kids

Harvard researchers looked at Katrina’s impact on children and how the lessons learned there could be applied to the COVID pandemic.

Alvin Powell • harvard
March 9, 2021 ~22 min


COVID-19’s long-term impact on our emotional landscape

With 500,000 deaths due to COVID, the U.S. has become a nation in mourning, often alone, also dealing with the trauma of the pandemic’s other effects, a combination that worries mental health experts.

Alvin Powell • harvard
March 2, 2021 ~6 min

Young adults hardest hit by loneliness during pandemic, study finds

As experts worry the COVID pandemic is triggering a loneliness epidemic, new Harvard research suggests some of the hardest hit are older teens and young adults.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Feb. 17, 2021 ~5 min

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