By Sean Walton Mylan Pharmaceuticals is pulling one lot of Xanax from pharmacy shelves nationwide because of what the company said is “the potential presence of a foreign substance” in the popular prescription anti-anxiety drug. The drug manufacturer cited a small chance of infection in…
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the clinical application of classic psychedelics in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. Researchers of the University of Zurich have now shown that mindfulness meditation can enhance the positive long-term effects of a single dose of…
By Crystalline Nutrients Lion’s mane mushroom is a medicinal food with many benefits that has been used for centuries and has now been shown to be an effective natural depression and anxiety treatment. A placebo-controlled human clinical study took 30 female patients to investigate the…
Green areas in the inner city can directly improve the wellbeing of urban citizens. This is the result of an interdisciplinary study, in which Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was involved. According to the study, people with a reduced brain capacity to self-regulate negative feelings…
By Barry Brownstein In a 2016 essay, “I Used to Be a Human Being,” Andrew Sullivan explored his debilitating digital addiction. The subtitle of Sullivan’s essay grabs our attention: An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It…
Even a brief period of healthy eating may provide longer-term improvements in mood Young adults with depression whose diet is usually unhealthy showed significantly fewer symptoms of depression after eating a healthy diet for three weeks, according to a study published October 9, 2019 in…
By Elizabeth Coombes, University of South Wales According to the NHS, as many as one in eight children aged five to 19 faces a mental health challenge. And a significant number of these cases are related to some form of anxiety. Of course, a degree…
By Jon Rappoport If you were the head of a drug company… If you had no conscience (the key fact)… If one of your drugs was causing people to commit murder… If MANY law suits against your company were waiting to go to trial… And…
In today’s world, people are finding it harder and harder to stay afloat as prices increase. For many, the thought of getting therapy and seeking help for their mental health problems is completely out of the picture because therapy is so unaffordable! In this article…
Three new studies by scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Cincinnati, highlight the relationship between air pollution and mental health in children. A study to be published Sept. 25 in Environmental Health Perspectives found that short-term…
By Sara Tipton Everyone deserves a calming and stress-free life; however, that’s not the reality in which any of us live. Stress happens. Life happens. But when it does, an herbal tea bath could be the soothing ritual needed to unwind. There are many benefits…
Advice for introverts: fake it, and you’ll be happier If you are an introvert, force yourself to be an extravert. You’ll be happier. That’s the suggestion of the first-ever study asking people to act like extraverts for a prolonged period. For one week, the 123…
By Susan Boskey The cannabis plant is incredibly versatile as many in legal states are quickly discovering. As a certified cannabis educator and practitioner in private practice, I find a number of medicinal uses that even surprise me. For example, I know someone with macular…
By Jean Golding, University of Bristol In the early 1960s, thousands of babies were born with malformed limbs as a result of their mother taking thalidomide – a drug used to treat morning sickness. The tragedy rocked the medical establishment and made doctors wonder what…
By John Vibes Johns Hopkins University recently announced the opening of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, a facility within John Hopkins Medicine that will be dedicated to studying psychedelics and their potential to be used medicinally. This research center is the first of…
We’ve all heard that ‘food is good for your mood’. Now a new study into mental health and nutrient supplementation has taken a leap forward by establishing the gold standard for which nutrients are proven to assist in the management of a range of mental…
By Jacob Devaney Art can heal us, inspire us, and alter our brain chemistry With so much talk about the evidence of the positive effects of yoga and meditation, you might be surprised at what scientific research also says about how art effects the brain….
A study of bacteria in the gut identified differences between people with high blood pressure compared to those with high blood pressure plus depression, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension 2019 Scientific Sessions. “People are ‘meta-organisms’ made up of roughly…
By Yvonne Black, University of Hull Spending time in outdoors, taking time out of the everyday to surround yourself with greenery and living things can be one of life’s great joys – and recent research also suggest it’s good for your body and your brain….
By Monideepa Tarafdar, Lancaster University; Christian Maier, University of Bamberg, and Sven Laumer, Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU) If you ever find yourself looking forward to a holiday because you’ll be able to switch off your smartphone then perhaps you’re suffering from social media “technostress”. The…
