How Does Water Scarcity Affect Mental Health?
Studies have found that people who lack access to water often suffer from emotional distress.
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Can Increased Automation Negatively Affect People's Physical and Mental Health?
Research findings suggest that workers in counties facing higher levels of automation risk reported more frequent levels of physical and mental distress.
The Positive Impact of Mindfulness Training Is Felt Six Years Later
Learning how to stay focused in the present has beneficial long-term results.
For Artists, Traumatic Childhoods Can Lead to More Intense Creative Experiences
Performing can be a way of letting go of one's sense of self.
Prozac Preschool
The youngest Americans are being prescribed a growing number of adult psychotropic drugs.
Does Bad Air Create Bad Behavior?
New research links air pollution to higher levels of crime and other unethical acts.
The Upside of Neuroticism
A big new study from the U.K. presents evidence that some neurotic people live longer lives.
Creating in an Age of Anxiety, Depression, and Dread
Anxiety can lead to better art, but do the two have to be so mutually intertwined?
Group Drumming Bangs Away at Anxiety
Researchers find mental-health benefits to participating in a drum circle.
Unlocking the Secrets of Paranoid Thinking
Cannabis use can cause a signal miscommunication in the brain, which is similar to what might happen in mental illness.
A Taxonomy of Writers’ Foes
They say that naming your fears makes them less scary. Here's a thorough categorization of universal writerly anxieties that everyone feels always and not just me.
My Demons and My Dog and This Anxiety and That Noise
Anxiety is clearest when it’s loud—and most dangerous when it’s quiet.
The Dangerous Weight of Expectations
Why do so many Asian-American students suffer from depression?
How Many Fish Does It Take to Lower Your Stress Level?
New research finds just the implication of aquatic life has an effect, but more sea creatures produce a greater impact.
The Hatred of Sound
The clank of silverware, the sound of chewing, and other forms of torture. The trouble with misophonia.
What's Behind Post-Brain Injury Depression and Anxiety?
A study suggests damaged white matter, the brain's signal cables, may be to blame.
Anxiety Games: For When a Little Distraction Is Good—or Even Necessary
There’s a lot of comfort to be found in virtual worlds.
Long Term, Bullying Might Be Worse Than Abuse and Neglect
Children bullied by their peers are upwards of 60 percent more likely to suffer mental illness as adults than kids who are abused and neglected, according to a new study.
Anxious? Consider Invisibility
Researchers in Sweden create the illusion of being see-through, which might reduce social anxiety.
From Sadness to Anxiety: The Emotional Legacy of Sandy Hook
New research suggests that the further we are from a tragedy, either geographically or in time, the more we tend to think about it in abstract terms.
The Children of the Prison Boom
Some argue that taking parents who have committed a crime out of the family might be good for children, but the data is in. It’s not.
Don't Just Blame Russell Wilson
Yes, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw a damning interception late in the game. But research suggests his coach never should have called that play anyway.