Limiting children’s screen time linked to better cognition
Source: BBC News By Alex Therrien Limiting children’s recreational screen use has been linked with improved cognition. Children aged eight to 11 who used screens for fun for less than […]
Does Thinking Burn Calories? Here’s What the Science Says
Source: Time By MARKHAM HEID You spent Sunday on the couch, skimming your social feeds and watching HGTV. Monday at work was a different story; your job involves creative problem solving […]
‘I’ve been a compulsive gambler for as long as I remember… this problem is rife in football’
Matt Tootle: Notts County defender says gambling ‘rife in football’ Source: BBC News Notts County defender Matt Tootle says gambling is “rife” in football as he revealed his own problems […]
“Counselling on wheels” for support to survivors of Boko Haram attacks
Counsellors on motorbikes put Boko Haram survivors on road to recovery Source: The Guardian BY Festus Iyorah in Wulari Cletus Nicholas takes his life in his hands when he gets […]
The Black Church Cannot ‘Pray Away’ Mental Illness
Source: Huffington Post By Jamilah Pitts CHRISTIANCHAN VIA GETTY IMAGES If the black church seeks to remain a sanctuary of liberation, we have to be willing to recognize how our […]
Exercising for two to six hours a week is the optimum duration for improving mental health.
Exercise Is Good For Your Mental Health—But Only To A Point Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME Given the many benefits of exercise — ranging from physical fitness and chronic disease prevention to improved mood — it may […]
I Thought I Was Possessed By The Devil. The Truth Shook My Deepest Beliefs.
Source: Huffington Post By Steve Kissing, Guest Writer In 1975, when I was a fifth-grader at St. William Elementary, a Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio, the devil began visiting me […]
How perfectionism leads to depression
Source: BBC News This article originally appeared on The Conversation, and is republished under a Creative Commons licence. The authors are Marianne Etherson, PhD candidate and graduate teaching assistant at York […]
As A Mental Health Crisis Sweeps Across Colleges, Students Step Up To Fix It
Source: Huffington Post For Sara Valente, the transition from high school to her freshman year at Harvard was rocky. She was homesick, anxious about making new friends and, as she […]
The World Health Organization Now Considers ‘Gaming Disorder’ a Unique Mental Health Condition
Source: Time By Jamey Keaten and Maria Cheng / AP (GENEVA) — Obsessive video gamers know how to anticipate dangers in virtual worlds. The World Health Organization says they now […]
This Type of Exercise May Help Relieve Depression
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME Strength training is good for your body and your mind, according to a new review of more than 30 previously published studies. The paper, published in the […]
How Being a Night Owl Endangers Your Health
Source: Time By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN A new study found that night owls—people who like to stay up late—are more likely to die early compared to morning larks, who rise earlier. The new report, published in the journal Chronobiology International, analyzed a study of about half a million people from ages 30 to 73 and followed what […]
How your mindset determines your health
Source: BBC News By Claudia Hammond 11 April 2018 If your New Year’s exercise regime has already failed, try not to focus on all the workouts you should have done. New research has revealed a surprising connection between people’s beliefs and their health: by being too negative about their physical […]
Ted Talk: Preventing Depression and PTSD
The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a serendipitous breakthrough treatment […]
Anti-depressants: Major study finds they work
Source: BBC News By Alex Therrien Health reporter, BBC News Scientists say they have settled one of medicine’s biggest debates after a huge study found that anti-depressants work. The study, […]
Videos: Let Joel Osteen Breathe Hope, Optimism and Success in Your Life
Joel Osteen’s audio: Forgiving So You can be Free Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no less than a thousand, […]
How feeling bad changes the brain
Source: BBC News By Melissa Hogenboom 15 January 2018 In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel A Handmaid’s Tale, the many wrongs that befall Offred strike a chilling chord among most readers. […]
How US mosques are dealing with Muslims’ mental health issues
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — They meet in a conference room on the second floor of the Islamic Association of Raleigh, a therapist and a member […]
How US mosques are dealing with Muslims’ mental health issues
Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — They meet in a conference room on the second floor of the Islamic Association of Raleigh, a therapist and a member […]
Take it from me, a Buddhist monk: cleaning is good for you
Source: The Guardian By Shoukei Matsumoto Mental health counsellors often recommend that clients clean their home environments every day. Dirt and squalor can be symptoms of unhappiness or illness. But cleanliness […]