Mental Health Disorders

Exercise Can Protect Kids From Stress

A new University of Helsinki study finds exercise can help children deal with stress.

Maintaining Your Mental Health

We all know the importance of staying fit and healthy, but what about our mental health?

Professor Barbara Sahakian, from Cambridge University, challenges society to prioritize mental health in the same way as we do physical health.

“Listening To Your Heart” for Body Image

A new study from the University of London shows that better awareness of internal bodily signals like heartbeat is linked to lower levels of self-objectification.

Heart Disease linked to Mild Cognitive Impairment

Cardiac disease is associated with increased risk of mild cognitive impairment such as problems with language, thinking and judgment — particularly among women with heart disease, a Mayo Clinic study shows.

Mental Health Intervention ReducesTeen Drinking

Interventions for teenagers at risk of emotional and behavioural problems can significantly reduce their drinking behaviour, and that of their schoolmates.

This is the result from a new randomised controlled trial published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Health Impacts of 9/11

In the first long-term study of the health impacts of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse on September 11, 2001, researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have found substantial and persistent mental and physical health problems among 9/11 first responders and recovery workers.

The data are published this week in a special 9/11 issue of the medical journal Lancet. Continue reading »