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What is Health Psychology? Its role in treating illness

Overview: Health psychology is a branch of psychology that that emphasizes how behavioral, biological, social and psychological factors impact the health and illness in beings. At times, behavioral medicine and medical psychology are the terms used to refer to health

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Shanghai Announced Psychological Emergency

Zhao, the Shanghai resident has been confined to her apartment for over six weeks while the metropolis of 25 million people battles COVID-19 infections. However, thousands of city people are facing another battle: mental health, as the uncertainty surrounding the

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Spotlight on Children’s Mental Health: A Free Online Course

The University of Essex in the UK is giving a series of free online courses to raise awareness about the challenges children encounter and to treat mental health issues in young adolescents. The series, titled “Why won’t they behave? Why

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Pandemic Brain Fog: Has The Pandemic Changed the Way Our Brain Functions?

We all have surely experienced the doorways effect at least once, where we enter a room and forget why we came there in the first place. Research has found it is an effect of overloaded working memory, or when our

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Bipolar Disorder: Mania & Hypomania

Bipolar disorder is classified as a mental health condition in which the person is experiencing manic and depressive episodes together. The oldest recognition of bipolar disorder was given in medical literature, at the time of Hippocrates (460-370 BC). Hippocrates was

Psychologs eMagazine May 2022

The May 2022 issue of Psychologs Magazine covers children’s learning, childhood disabilities, stress, ADHD, and depression. It also highlights self-care, friendship changes, and family support. With added sections on pet stories, mental health questions, education updates, and research, the issue

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Linking Mental Health with Blood Pressure Variability (BPV)

According to new research, both the heart and the mind are involved when patients suffer from mental illness. Our hearts’ ability to adjust to environmental stimuli is the connection between them. This connection is broken in patients with poor mental

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Microaggressions and Their Health Impacts

Microaggressions might be the consequence of intentional bias, but they can also reflect hidden biases. A person may deliver a microaggression without realising that their words or actions convey a discriminating viewpoint. According to new research, this covert type of

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Covid now harms mental health in several ways, ranging from anxiety to PTSD.

According to health specialists, the Covid-19 epidemic, which has been present for over two years, has begun to damage the mental health of not only people who have been affected but also those who have not been sick. Following the

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Truth in Unreliable Memories: A Forensic Psychology study

When a violent occurrence is observed, our body reacts uniquely, cortisol, a stress hormone, rushes into our bloodstream, preparing us for a fight or flight response. Our focus also narrows in on the threat at hand, tunnelling our awareness down