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A child well-being initiative backed by Mayor Kirk Watson and other local groups is advancing this summer following a comprehensive review of local childhood trends and outcomes. The new research will inform a multi-year plan intended to make Austin “the best place in America to be a kid.”

SLEEP DISTURBANCE in cirrhosis has long been recognised as a major but under-addressed driver of reduced wellbeing, yet this study suggested that the pattern and regularity of sleep over time may be more clinically informative than traditional single-night assessments. Using six months of wearable data, researchers found that sleep regularity was the strongest sleep-related factor…

College students often struggle to regulate emotions under changing academic and social stress, highlighting the need for interventions targeting adaptive emotion regulation (ER). Here, we tested a 5-week online intervention designed to enhance ER and cognitive flexibility in college students. Participants (N = 39) were pseudo-randomly assigned to the experimental (N = 20) or control (N = 19) group, with higher…