Tag: Mental Health
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Getting some exercise, with a little help from friends — and app
CrimsonZip aims to get the community off the couch by helping people find others looking for a workout — or just a walk.
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Mental health ills are rising. Do mood-tracking apps help?
Public health data specialist says they can raise patient awareness, but there are pitfalls.
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Strong, silent, and suffering inside
Mental health experts, Indianapolis Colts owner discuss efforts to end the stigma around asking for help.
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Expanding our understanding of gut feelings
Women who suppressed emotions had less diverse microbiomes in a study that also found a specific bacterial link to happiness.
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Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for inmates
Harvard experts on law and policy say originalist view used to overturn Roe could upend the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that requires a minimal standard for inmate health care.
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More mindfulness may be part of the answer for anxiety-ridden U.S.
Researcher hopes findings signal new treatment option amid surge in mental health cases.
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Abortion law, suicide rate study adds to raging debate. But are we missing point?
A Harvard epidemiologist says that research tends to be weaponized on both sides, overshadowing the mental health needs of those with unwanted pregnancies.
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Sniffing for smiles
Meet Sasha, newest member of Harvard police force. Her duty? To spread joy.
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Building ‘bravery muscles’ to fight rising anxiety among kids
Harvard psychologist says pandemic worsened trend and screening, early intervention key to avoiding bigger problems.
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‘Access, awareness, prevention, and support’
Student mental health initiative co-chairs Giang Nguyen and Robin Glover discuss the state of their work.
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Starting a conversation on college suicide
More than 1,000 backpacks dotted Harvard Yard, representing the lives of college students lost to suicide every year.
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Integrity may be good for your health
Study links ‘strong moral character’ traits with reduced risk for depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular disease.
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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.
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Optimism lengthens life, study finds
Women who reported a positive outlook were likelier to live past 90, regardless of race or ethnicity.
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Brain inflammation may strike the uninfected
New study reveals that living through the COVID-19 pandemic may trigger brain inflammation that contributes to fatigue, concentration difficulties, and depression.
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We haven’t just suffered during COVID. We’ve learned.
Resilience of young people, new treatment tools give Matt Nock hope amid challenges posed by social media, school and campus disruptions.
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Is a mobile app as good as a therapist?
A closer look at the mental health apps that claim to treat depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses.
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Helping traumatized refugees heal themselves
The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma has pioneered the study of the impact of mass violence on refugees and treatment for trauma recovery over its 40-year history.
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Making Shakespeare feel relevant
Jeffrey Wilson, who teaches Shakespeare to first-year students, says that skeptical students are often the most successful ones.
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Thrown into the deep end in the psych ward
Excerpt from memoir chronicles an intern’s day in the ER.
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Why returning to ‘normal’ feels so not
A Harvard Chan School psychologist counseled awareness and flexibility as people return to work, school, or other pre-pandemic activities.
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New center seeks to understand any ‘magic’ in mushrooms
Massachusetts General Hospital’s new Center for the Neuroscience of Psychedelics aims to better understand psychedelic drugs for therapeutic purposes.
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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.