There is a common culprit behind many broken New Year's resolutions and other unrealized goals, and it can influence your thoughts and actions without your awareness, says Safia Debar, M.B.B.S., a general practitioner and resiliency expert at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London. If you are having difficulty achieving goals such as exercising more, ( Read more... )

The average UK person spends just 7% of their time (or 86 minutes) outdoors during the work week. This is shocking to hear-but with our busy schedules, it's no wonder many of us can only find a few minutes each day to get outside.

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To many, New Year's Day represents the possibility for beginning anew.

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Anna Vannucci has a twin. Her younger sisters are also twins. Despite the shared genes and the close proximity in age (all four siblings were born within 15 months of each other), Vannucci and her siblings all had deeply different personalities. At the age of 8, Vannucci sat her siblings down on a couch and asked them questions to try to get to the ( Read more... )

With five weeks of school summer holidays (that's around 25 days of weekday activities to organize), being online is a major attraction for most kids and a concern for most parents and caregivers.

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Once sidelined in the 1970s, psychedelic substances-ranging from esketamine (a ketamine derivative) and psilocybin (the active ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms) to MDMA-are being reintroduced as potential therapies for severe psychiatric disorders.

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The global prevalence and rank of nonfatal burden of autism spectrum disorder are high, according to a review published online Dec. 19 in The Lancet Psychiatry.

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Compared to the general population, police and firefighters face heightened risks of depression, PTSD and suicide, and they are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty, according to a 2018 report commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation, which advocates for people with disabilities.

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What does a baby know about right and wrong? A foundational finding in moral psychology suggested that even infants have a moral sense, preferring "helpers" over "hinderers" before uttering their first word. Now, nearly 20 years later, a study that tried to replicate these findings calls this result into question.

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Should you cut back on doom scrolling in 2025? Worries about money, gun violence and hate crimes ranked high among many people's lists of worries at the end of 2024, according to a poll that is part of American Psychiatric Association (APA) Healthy Minds Monthly opinion poll series. The survey included 2200 U.S. adults.

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