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How do stay-at-home mandates impact mental health?

A new study suggests that although people may find stay-at-home mandates mentally and emotionally taxing to begin with, these ill effects begin to fade as individuals establish new routines. In May, experts at the United Nations warned that a mental health crisis could be looming due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New research now suggests that […]

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How Black veterans experience racial bias in mental healthcare

New research shines a light on how Black veterans receiving treatment for mental health issues perceive and experience racial bias in a healthcare context. A new study highlights how Black veterans perceive their experiences of accessing treatment for mental health issues. The authors of the study, which appears in the journal Patient Education and Counseling, […]

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Heart rate could predict depression

New research has identified a link between heart rate and depression, which could help with the diagnosis and treatment of the mental health issue. A new pilot study has found that depression can be predicted with a 90% accuracy by analyzing a person’s heart rate over 24 hours. The research, presented virtually at the 33rd […]

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Active yoga may help relieve depression symptoms

New research suggests that physically active yoga can help ease depressive symptoms for people with a mental health diagnosis. A study has found that people with some mental health diagnoses who regularly engage in physically active yoga are likely to have fewer depressive symptoms than those who practice less often or engage in other forms […]

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Smell changes memory processing and could treat trauma

Smells can reinvigorate old memories in a way that doctors could use to treat memory-related mood disorders, suggests a study in mice from Boston University. The nature of memory is one of the biggest mysteries of neuroscience. Memories are at the basis of who we are, and how the brain processes and consolidates them is […]