Latest Mental Health News
5 Ways to Reduce Stress and Boost Immune System While Social Distancing
As COVID-19 continues to spread and we make lifestyle adjustments in response, the challenge is to maintain your mental and physical health in light of mounting stress. These ...
Full Article
Research Links Neighborhood Characteristics with Women’s Use of Preventive Care
A study conducted by Columbia University School of Nursing shows where a woman lives influences her use of preventive health care more than her income or race/ethnicity or whe...
Full Article
Rural Students and Students of Color Report Gaps in Availability of Mental Health Support
Roughly one in four American adolescents experience mental health challenges, yet new survey data show that rural students and students of color have more difficulty accessing...Full Article
Technology Used in Space Experiments Could Reveal Key Information about Human Health
Researchers uncover new information about physics behind technology being used on ISS In an article published recently in Microgravity, a Nature Journal, researchers at Rens...Full Article
Therapeutic horseback riding combined with cognitive exercises can help children with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders
First-of-its kind research shows how brain-building exercises shared with horseback riding courses improves the motor skills of young people with neurodevelopmental disorders....Full Article
In The Rooms Offers Popular Remote Addiction Recovery Meetings for Those at Risk From COVID-19
In The Rooms, a free global social network for those recovering from alcohol, drug and other addictions, continues to offer live, online peer recovery meetings to all members....Full Article
Destress in Your Own Back Yard
While adults are home teleworking, and kids are at home participating in online educational instruction (we hope), it’s even more important during these challenging times to t...Full Article
The impact of the new coronavirus could lead to the longest flu season in decades
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has created a third spike in influenza-like illness (ILI) activity across the United States, as researchers working with AccuWeather pr...
Full Article
Join us at the SLP2B 2020 Virtual Conference!
Join us at the SLP2B 2020 Virtual Conference! 5 Things You Need to Know Whether you are a new clinician or moving into new areas of practice, 5 SLP experts are ready to shar...Full Article
HeartMath® Institute Giving Away 100,000 Copies of New Online Program to Help Kids Learn to Manage Emotions
New Initiative Aims to Put Kids on the Path to Avoid Depression and Anxiety, Learn to Manage Emotions According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 31...Full Article
Understanding how the brain predicts could make treating autism easier
Our brains make our lives easier by predicting what will happen next based on previous experiences. But what happens when those predictive powers don’t work like they should? ...Full Article
What Men and Women Lie to Their Doctor About
The TermLife2Go team surveyed 500 people to find out if they’ve ever lied to their doctors, and 23% said they have. Here are some of the white lies, stretched truths, and comp...Full Article
Outdoor Foundation Study: Half of the US population does not participate in outdoor recreation at all
Outdoor Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), released the latest Outdoor Participation Report, showing about half the U.S. population parti...Full Article
One step closer to understanding the human brain
An international team of scientists led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has launched a comprehensive overview of all proteins expressed in the brain, publish...Full Article
AllOne Foundation Combats the Opioid Crisis
In 2018 alone, more than 4,400 people died from drug overdoses in Pennsylvania. While this number represents an 18 percent decrease from 2017, the number of drug-related death...Full Article
Long-term medication for schizophrenia is safe
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and their colleagues in Germany, the USA and Finland have studied the safety of very long-term antipsychotic therapy for schizop...Full Article
Ulman House Observes First Anniversary of Operations
First-of-its-kind healthcare hospitality facility supports AYA cancer patients. On Friday, January 10, the Ulman Foundation (Ulman) celebrated the one-year anniversary of the...Full Article
ChristianaCare Designated as National ‘Age-Friendly Health System’ from The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
ChristianaCare earns designation as Age-Friendly Health System from John A. Hartford Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and recognized as “Exemplar” site fro...Full Article
CDC Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Situation Summary
This is a rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information and guidance as it becomes available. Updated March 21, 2020 CDC is responding to a pandemic of...Full Article
NIAAA at 50: A Legacy of Advancing Alcohol Research
On December 31, 1970, Congress passed the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, the legislation that created the National I...Full Article
Yale School of Medicine Utilizes Virtual Reality Technology to Study a New Era of Group Therapy
Yale School of Medicine Utilizes Virtual Reality Technology to Study a New Era of Group Therapy Yale School of Medicine in conjunction with Foretell Reality, a subsidiary com...Full Article
Ten-Fold Decrease in Job Gains for People with Disabilities
Only 29,893 people with disabilities entered the workforce in 2018, a ten-fold decrease compared to the more than 343,000 new jobs for people with disabilities two years ago. ...Full Article
EVERSANA and Noom announce strategic partnership to improve therapy adherence and patient engagement for complex therap
EVERSANA™, the leading independent provider of commercial services to the life science industry, and Noom, the world's leading behavior change company, today announced a colla...Full Article
Adulthood with Autism
The independence that comes with growing up can be scary for any teenager, but for young adults with autism spectrum disorder and their caregivers, the transition from adolesc...Full Article
Pharmacists for Healthier Lives Offers Perspective on Opioid Crisis
Pharmacists for Healthier Lives (PfHL) - a coalition of pharmacy and healthcare organizations raising awareness of how pharmacists help people live their healthiest lives – to...Full Article
