Browsing: Mental Health

Psychology explains why your brain refuses to forget embarrassing moments – and there’s a good reason for it

A small implanted device that stimulates the vagus nerve may offer substantial and lasting relief for people with severe treatment-resistant depression, according to a large multicenter clinical trial.The findings, published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, showed that improvements in depressive symptoms, quality of life, and daily functioning were sustained for at least two years…

Fourth of July celebrations costing millions of dollars and involving possibly hundreds of millions of US citizens of all ages, will dominate American consciousness at this time

Psychology of loving mathematics: Psychology says people who are good with numbers and love mathematics aren’t only analytical thinkers: What this reveals? – The Economic Times

Everyone can experience a deterioration in their mental health at some point in their life

As we turn the page on our first 250 years as a country, it is remarkable how far we have come in terms of intermarriage. Marriage between Black people and white people was banned in many colonies (later states) as well as between other races. It was only 59 years ago, in the 1967 Loving…

A Wall Street Journal investigation this month put a striking name to a sweeping cultural shift: passive income has replaced hard work as the new American Dream. 

Psychology of believing in fairy tales: Psychology says people who believe in fairy tales aren’t unrealistic: What this belief reveals? – The Economic Times

It may take a few attempts to find the right medication or therapy, but once you do, symptoms ease, and life becomes more manageable. 

In the high and later Middle Ages, restoration of sanity to those who had lost their mind accounted for about 10% of recorded saintly miracles. But as Virginia Commonwealth University historian Leigh Ann Craig details in her latest book, “Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe,” the diagnoses behind these instances of…