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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

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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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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

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The dearth of proper mental health centers in Kashmir is becoming a problem.

Long and back-to-back lockdowns, along with a scarcity of healthcare services, have exacerbated the issue. Since the beginning of 2019, hospitals in Kashmir have seen an influx of mental health condition cases. Patients’ suffering is exacerbated by a lack of

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Understanding Black Grief

Black Americans have a life expectancy of 78 years, which is 6 years less than white Americans. They are twice as likely as white Americans to die of heart disease, 50% more likely to have high blood pressure, and are

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Domestic violence puts children’s mental health at risk

When your parents fight, it’s painful enough, but a new study suggests that trauma can increase your chances of depression and other mental health issues. More than 17,700 Canadian people took part in a national survey on mental health for

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Children’s Mental health is at stake as HSE audits main focus on ADHD

Many children experience anxiety and worry from time to time, and as a result, they may act out in disruptive ways. Children without a mental disorder may perform differently than children with a recognised mental problem, and children with the