mental health

Here’s a good news/bad news example of how technology can help and hurt us. Wearable technology that allows us to effectively monitor our health so that we can react to the information can also contribute to greater health-based stress and…

EEG scans show specific changes in brain activity while petting, walking, and playing with "Man's Best Friend." Spending quality time with dogs reduces stress and increases the power of brain waves associated with relaxation and…

At the end of last year, the VA published its 2023 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Report. They found that 6,392 veterans died by suicide in 2021, up 114% over 2020. What was especially alarming was the suicide increase for women…

Half of all marriages will likely fail. The statistics are miserable - and many are seriously searching for ways to avoid that chance of failure. Ronald Rogge, associate professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, has been…

There is a major push for using AI in real-time brain-computer interfaces. To that end, researchers at the USC Center for Neurotechnology have developed an advanced deep-learning method for brain signals that can perform real-time decoding…

Robots as mental well-being coaches in the workplace may be useful– but it depends on what the robot looks like. University of Cambridge researchers used two robot well-being coaches for their study; 26 employees participated in weekly…

Many of us turn to Reddit for product information, inspiration in Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, and stories about animals doing amazing things. Recently, researchers have turned to Reddit to help analyze depression and anxiety to…

Research published by the American Psychological Association indicates that if you’re working alongside robots, you may be experiencing job burnout and workplace incivility. Their suggestion? Self-affirmation techniques may help alleviate…

A new meta-analysis on the effects of cognitive, leisure, physical, and social activities is in the August 10, 2022, online issues of Neurology®, the American Academy of Neurology medical journal. Past studies have shown that leisure…

Between March 30th and April 11th, 2022, just over 21% of the US adult population reported symptoms of depression. This number is down from a high of over 30.2% from December 9th through the 21st of 2020. In 2019, depression symptoms were…