17 ‘Small,’ but Significant, Lifestyle Changes That Help People With Anxiety was published on The Mighty by Sarah Schuster. While
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Former rugby league stars running mental health sessions
A rugby league team’s dressing room is not where you would expect discussions about mental health issues to be held.
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14 Things You Can Do Every Day To Protect Your Mental Health As You Age
Aging brings you face to face with the loss of loved ones, children leaving the nest and physical changes such
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Why people become more prone to distraction with age: A specific brain network, the locus coeruleus, that controls our ability to focus while under stress appears to weaken as we age, interfering with our ability to focus
Older adults appear more easily distracted by irrelevant information than younger people when they experience stress or powerful emotions —
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Sex after 65: Poll finds links to health, gender differences, lack of communication: Majority are satisfied with their sex lives; nearly 1 in 5 older men use medications or supplements, U-M/AARP National Poll on Healthy Aging finds
A new poll busts stereotypes about the sex lives of older Americans — and reveals gender and health-related divides on
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Forty-four genomic variants linked to major depression
A new meta-analysis of more than 135,000 people with major depression and more than 344,000 controls has identified 44 genomic
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When do problems with memory and decision-making affect older adults’ ability to drive? Researchers study links between cognitive function levels and crash risk
For older adults, driving can mean living a more independent, satisfying life. Therefore, it’s no surprise that about 86 percent
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Pediatric obesity, depression connected in the brain
Early-life obesity and depression may be driven by shared abnormalities in brain regions that process rewards, according to researchers at
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How chronic early-life stress raises PTSD vulnerability: Persistent stress in adolescence appears to increase vulnerability through elevated ghrelin levels in rat model and in humans
A collaboration between investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and Khyber Medical University in Pakistan may have discovered how chronic stress
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Marriage reduces depression in couples earning less than $60,000 per year, study finds
People who are married and earning less than $60,000 per year in total household income have fewer symptoms of depression
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