The Daily Supplement That Might Lower Your Anxiety
Have you been feeling an uptick in your anxiety levels lately? It's nothing to be ashamed of. According to the Anxiety & Depression...
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Are You a "Digital Hoarder"?
When we think of hoarders, the image that likely comes to us is of a house or apartment unit piled so high with old newspapers and junk...
Pandemic Blues? Try Nature
By this point, we're no doubt all familiar with the lowered mood associated with life during the COVID-19 pandemic.The combination of...
PTSD May Double Chances of Dementia
A new study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, is the first-ever global meta-analysis on the possible link between...
The Over-the-Counter Medicine That Increases Your Risk-Taking
We tend to think of our personalities as pretty fixed and stable. We divide ourselves into introverts and extroverts, dreamers and...
The Smiling Hack
In the middle of a pandemic, with economic and political unrest growing everywhere and the promise of an ugly election cycle coming up,...
The Furry Robot Factor
Image source: Gurion University of the Negevl. As many pet owners know, in hard times, it can be very helpful to have a furry little...
The Loneliness Epidemic
There's an epidemic sweeping the world, and it's not the one you think. A new paper published in the Trends in Cognitive Sciences journal...
Stay Sharp: Eat Your Flavonoids
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias can have devastating effects. Neuroscience is searching for ways to offset, delay, or prevent...
Personality Predictors
Can you predict what someone's personality will be like based on their infant behavior? A new study funded by the National Institutes of...
Mental Health in a Time of Quarantine
It will probably not come as a surprise to you that life during a pandemic can be challenging for one's mental health. Even the CDC...
Delaying Alzheimer's Symptoms with Bilingualism
If you took French or Spanish in high school, now's the time to brush up on those verb tenses. A study at UCLA has found that people who...
Obligation During Social Distancing
As Covid-19 forces us indoors, people are more and more relying on their social circles, for favors big and small. William Chopik,...
Is Your Child Sleeping Enough?
As adults, we don’t need to be persuaded to seek a good night’s sleep. That well-rested, energetic feeling is reward enough. But what...
Get Yourself to a Green Space!
Parks and nature preserves: they're not just for taking a jog or walking your dog. Visiting green spaces yields real benefits for the...