A four-year study by Columbia University’s TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups highlighted the importance of routine mental health screenings in high schools, as many at-risk youths have yet to be properly identified. The study found that of the students who were identified as at-risk for a mental health
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As another school year gets underway, University of Chicago researchers found that altering the way students handle stress could mean better math grades. The study, which was recently published in the journal Emotion, tested 73 undergraduates to further probe the topic of performance failure in math. For the first time,
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists are suggesting that people with depression who are having difficulty finding relief from drug treatment alone should give moderate to intense exercise a try. The results can be as effective as taking a second medication, according to the scientists. Over the course of four years,
In a scary movie, ominous music playing is a cue to viewers that something bad is about to happen. But new research from University College London reveals that men and women anticipate negative events differently, which effects how these events will be remembered. In a study that was published in
Previous studies have already suggested that an expectant mother’s mental health can affect her child’s physical and emotional well-being. But University of Montreal researchers found that mothers who are depressed can have an impact on their children outside the womb as well. In a study recently published in the Proceedings of the
A soon-to-be released study in Psychological Science suggests that the self-pride found among the residents of certain countries is not necessarily a cultural difference but actually relates to economic inequality within countries. According to a release from the Association for Psychological Science, the differences in “self-enhancement” were originally thought to be
It has typically been thought that boys and men generally don’t like to talk about their problems out of embarrassment or fear that they’ll be considered weak. But researchers at the University of Missouri say the real reason is because males typically think talking about problems is a waste of
Surfing the web at work is typically viewed as bad practice, but a recent article in The Wall Street Journal reports that taking a break to browse the Internet may actually help employees increase productivity levels. In a newly released study, researchers put 96 undergraduate management students into three groups
Adolescents who are happy are less likely to get involved with crime or do drugs, according to the findings of researchers from the University of California, Davis. The study analyzed data from 15,000 seventh- to ninth-graders from the 1995 and 1996 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health during 1995 and 1996.
Recent anti-smoking campaigns have increasingly turned to shocking ads and disturbing pictures to steer people away from cigarettes, but research from the University of Missouri suggests that this tactic might actually backfire. Researchers showed 49 participants different anti-smoking public service announcements, some of which had “threatening and disgusting” images in