Featured series 
Tag: Mental Health
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Campus & Community
Healing through music
Grant Jones incorporated love of meditation and listening to R&B, hip-hop into dissertation on mindfulness interventions
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Campus & Community
Identifying barriers faced by people with disabilities
Melissa Shang conducts ambitious survey for senior thesis, filling ‘major gap’ in scholarship
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Nation & World
Things money can’t buy — like happiness and better health
That’s according to the Harvard Study of Adult Development, which over its 87-year run has generated data that benefits work on other issues
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Campus & Community
When Jodie Foster found out acting wasn’t a dumb job
Celebrated performer, filmmaker — and now Radcliffe Medalist — discusses sometimes thorny complexities of six-decade career
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Health
How young is too young? No such thing, apparently.
Specialist outlines impact of screen time on developing brains, from toddlerhood to teen years
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Arts & Culture
Making universal connection through the intensely personal
Woodberry Poetry Room workshop project on tradition of elegy inspired by loneliness, grief of pandemic
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Health
More proof that money isn’t everything
Major global study of flourishing ranks wealthy, lower-income nations, reinforces concerns over well-being among youth
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Campus & Community
Helping the U.S. fight addiction, cancer, other afflictions
A snapshot of research backed by partnership between government agencies and higher ed
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Campus & Community
Cutting drug costs, embracing aging, demystifying AI — and more research ideas
8 graduate students pitch their work in Harvard Horizons talks
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Health
Is dining with others a sign of happiness?
Shared meals may be a more reliable indicator of well-being than income, Kennedy School researcher says
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Health
How to manage stress during an apocalypse
Psychologist says scrutinizing risk factors, embracing community, adventure are key in age of angst over climate, AI, pandemics
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Health
How to take yourself less seriously
Clinical psychologist draws line between self-deprecating humor (with its health, social benefits) and self-flagellation
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Campus & Community
Healthy Minds Survey asks students about mental health
University will use results to tailor resources and support to students’ needs
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Campus & Community
4 things we learned this week
How closely have you been following the Gazette? Take our quiz to find out.
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Health
Food, water — and a friendly face
Health professionals view social contact as basic human need. Now researchers have tracked neurological basis for it.
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Health
Older adults at highest risk for suicide, yet have fewest resources
Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide prevention efforts
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Health
The lie that taints perfectionism
‘How to Be Enough’ author on the difference between admiration and acceptance, the power of ‘2 percent kinder,’ and why values should come before rules
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Health
Different day, different diagnosis?
Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine
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Health
Gambling problems are mushrooming. Panel says we need to act now.
With recent leap in legalized sports betting and online options, public health experts outline therapeutic, legislative strategies
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Health
One way to save lives in jails
Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths
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Health
How exactly does ketamine work? New research offers insight.
Anesthetic growing in popularity as game-changing therapy for severe, treatment-resistant depression
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Health
Now that we have new ‘miracle’ diet drugs, what’s the point of exercising?
Experts say weight loss isn’t at top of list of health, longevity gains that come from activities like walking, hitting gym
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Health
Death, destruction — and trauma — of L.A. wildfires
Psychiatric epidemiologist discusses mental health toll from displacement and loss, the path forward for victims
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Health
Aha moment in psych class clarifies childhood mystery
Inspires Susan Kuo’s research probing role of genetics in schizophrenia, autism
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Science & Tech
Can people change?
One thing is certain in the new year — we’ll evolve, with or without resolutions. In podcast, experts consider our responsibility.
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Health
Why be kind? You might live longer.
Take our research-based quiz on biological benefits of being good
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Health
Rapid relief for the severely depressed? There’s a catch.
Ketamine carries risks, say researchers. Yet for some patients, it’s ‘the only thing that works.’
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Nation & World
Are optimists the realists?
Humanity is doing better than ever yet it often doesn’t seem that way. In podcast, experts make the case for fact-based hope.
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Nation & World
Your side might lose. But you don’t have to lose your mind.
Political engagement is healthy. Doomscrolling? Not so much.
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Health
How to fight depression? Faster.
Hope flags when medications fail, isolating and endangering patients. Backed by a major grant, 2 Harvard scientists are focused on reducing the distance between diagnosis and recovery.
