Menopause Years Are Key to Preventing Alzheimer’s in Women
A new medical review that brought together evidence from many earlier studies on why women develop Alzheimer’s disease more often than men suggests that the years around menopause may be one of the most important periods for protecting women’s brain health. The findings are widely useful because they can help women reduce that risk.
Emotional Distress Linked to Compulsive Pornography Use, Indian Study Finds
Over recent decades, pornography has become more available, affordable, and easier to access in private, especially through smartphones and the internet. However, a new study in India finds that people with higher levels of depression, anxiety and stress are more likely to report compulsive or problematic pornography use.
Body Dissatisfaction in Teens Linked to Mental Illness in Adulthood: Study
Many people feel unhappy with how they look, and you may feel the same way. A new study shows that body dissatisfaction has become one of the most common psychological struggles among adolescents, and that these feelings during teenage years are strongly linked to eating disorder symptoms and depression in early adulthood.
Fear and the Beings We Learn to Despise: A Professor’s Open Letter to Students
This piece is not an academic or a journalistic write-up; it is my heartfelt narrative for all the students who have internalised fear. I write this not because I want to preach, but because I feel responsible for giving you a kind and better world. It is challenging for me to recount a small (or rather, huge) incident from my life, and that too publicly, but I want all students to read and engage with my lived experience, even if they disagree.
New Global Study May Transform Mental Illness Treatment by Studying Causes
A major research project in the U.K. is studying why serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder happen, so that new, safer treatments can be developed. It involves collecting detailed data from 600 people and sharing it with scientists around the world to change how these illnesses are understood, diagnosed and treated.