Mental Health

World mental health support and the effect of stigma and discrimination

Mental health, as with any other aspects of health, can be affected by a range of socioeconomic factors that need to be addressed through comprehensive strategies involving access to preventions, treatments and facilitating recovery as well as raising awareness.

Digital Nutrition: How Social Media Consumption Affects Our Mental Diet

How is Social Media Affecting Mental Health?

The Health Effects of Loss and Grief

Digestive Disorders and Mental Health

Incontinence and Mental Health

Is a Digital Detox the Answer to Technostress?

How Do Your Emotions Affect Your Physical Health?

How Healthy is Your Job?

The Psychological Strain of Chronic Physical Illness

Investigating the Link between Cleaning and Mental Health

Managing and Reducing Stress

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What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

What are the Health Effects of Watching Television?

What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

Mental Health in Humanitarian Settings

Déjà vu Experiences and Mental Illness: Is there a Link?

Building Resilience: the Neurobiology of Mental Wellbeing

Mental Health Nursing

Mental Health and Cooking

Maternal Immune Activation During Pregnancy

What are the Health Effects of Loneliness?

Friluftsliv: The Norwegian Prescription for Health and Happiness

Are Mental Health Issues Increasing?

The Science of Kindness

Mental Health Comorbidities

How Crying Could Actually Boost Your Mood

How is Infant Mental Health Measured?

How has the Wellness Industry Changed over the Last Decade?

Screen Time and Mental Health

What is Psychotherapy?

What are the Health Effects of Poverty?

Importance of a Work-Life Balance

Treatment Options for Intrusive Thoughts

What are the Applications of Technology-Based Mental Health Interventions?

The Effect of Diet on Mental Health

The Genetics of Schizophrenia

The Role of Crisis Teams in Mental Health Management

What Is Psychopathy?

What Is Recovery-Focused Care?

The Impact of Cyberbullying on Mental Health

The Benefits of Nature for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Supporting Your Mental Health at Work

Mental Health Disorders, Weight Gain, and Exercise

Supporting Children with Mental Health Disorders

The Health Risks of Self-Diagnosing Mental Disorders

Pollution and Mental Health

Mental Health in a Digitalized Workplace

How does Education Affect Mental Health?

Forest Bathing for Health: How Nature Nurtures Wellbeing

A Guide to Coping with Change

What is Social Prescribing?

Transforming Your Life Through Positive Thinking

What is Mental Health First Aid?

What is Schizoaffective Disorder?

Supporting the Mental Health of Minorities

Analyzing the Stigma Surrounding Mental Health

Mental Health Support Strategies for Healthcare Workers

What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?

What are the Current Challenges in Mental Health Disorder Diagnosis?

Can Resveratrol Improve Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression?

Perfectionism and Depression

Mental Health Disorders and Children

What is Mindfulness?

Latest Mental Health News and Research

High cognitive impairment rates among homeless people demand radical policy change

Cognitive impairment is a prevalent but often unaddressed factor in chronic homelessness, and it must be addressed to help reduce homelessness, argues the author of a commentary published in CMAJ

21 Sep 2026

Early life sugar exposure linked to higher adult anxiety risk

Exposure to sugar in the first 1,000 days of a child's life increases the risk of developing anxiety in adulthood, a new study from the University of Surrey reports.

21 Sep 2026

Psychological flexibility improves athlete performance and mental wellbeing

Psychological flexibility plays an important role in both performance and wellbeing. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis by Lis Johles, which examined the relationship between psychological flexibility, mindfulness, mental health and performance among competitive athletes.

21 Sep 2026

Machine learning predicts psychosocial resilience among healthcare workers

A team of researchers trained three machine learning models-Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and Support Vector Machine (SVM)-to classify healthcare workers according to their level of psychosocial resilience, using information collected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

18 Sep 2026

Chile becomes first South American nation to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies

Chile has become the first country in South America to receive the World Health Organization (WHO) validation for eliminating dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem.

18 Sep 2026

Chronic stress and inflammation cause silent structural heart damage

Chronic stress from people's everyday lives may be causing lasting structural changes to the heart, harming health and reducing life expectancy.

18 Sep 2026

Study highlights drop in harmful medication use among adults with cognitive disorders

Adults 65 and older with cognitive disorders such as dementia, are more likely to suffer negative effects from drugs that treat central nervous system conditions including anxiety, sleep problems and psychosis.

17 Sep 2026

Maternal depressive symptoms linked to higher infant mortality risk

Infants born to mothers with depressive symptoms immediately after delivery had a substantially higher risk of dying before their first birthday, according to researchers involved in a Rutgers-led study of more than 414,000 births in New Jersey.

17 Sep 2026

Multilingual girls face delayed ADHD diagnosis and support

Girls from multilingual and immigrant families could be missing out on ADHD support - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

17 Sep 2026

Women with hyperemesis gravidarum report major gaps in care

Medical assistance can help women suffering from severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, but insufficient recognition of Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) means that many are not getting the help they need to overcome this severe and debilitating form of morning sickness.

17 Sep 2026

Genetic risk for PTSD varies across different types of trauma

A groundbreaking study reveals that your genes may make you more vulnerable to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from certain types of trauma-particularly childhood neglect-than from others.

17 Sep 2026

Your walking pattern may reveal more about anxiety and depression than you think

Researchers used smartphone and wearable accelerometers to examine how everyday movement patterns relate to anxiety and depression symptoms in middle-aged adults. Phone-derived gait states differed with daily symptom scores, while lower wrist movement was linked to greater anxiety in a small subsample, supporting further study of passive movement sensing for mental health monitoring.

16 Sep 2026

Gambling disorder emergency visits increase following sports betting legalization

Emergency department (ED) visits for gambling disorders doubled following the legalization of single-event sports betting and expansion of Ontario's online gambling market, according to a new study from ICES. The increase was observed predominantly among young men.

16 Sep 2026

RES-AGE project explores cost-effective ways to strengthen older adults' wellbeing

How can we develop evidence‑based and cost‑effective ways to strengthen older adults' resilience and mental wellbeing? With just over 1 million euros from the Strategic Research Council, Åbo Akademi University will, over an initial period of three years, examine social, health‑related, psychological and biological factors that promote resilience, with a particular focus on loneliness, stress and health.

16 Sep 2026

Cold plunges may boost your mood, but the evidence is still on thin ice

A Molecular Psychiatry review examined evidence linking cold exposure with mood and mental health outcomes, alongside proposed roles for catecholamines, the HPA axis, and immune-inflammatory pathways. Early studies report short-term mood improvements and physiological changes, but clinical evidence remains limited, and the proposed mechanisms have not been established as drivers of lasting psychiatric benefits.

16 Sep 2026

The music in psychedelic therapy may be more than background sound

A narrative review examines how music interacts with psychedelics, psychological support, and treatment context in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, arguing that its role cannot be understood as an isolated component. The authors highlight limited evidence on music-specific effects and propose studying PAP as a complex intervention, with music described according to its therapeutic function rather than fixed playlists or genres.

16 Sep 2026