The largest increases occurred in Slavic, Baltic, English-speaking and Latin American countries.

Researchers find that body art can help survivors cope with trauma.

We’ve faced bad tidings for over a year now. But, viewing the news makes us feels awful; ignoring it doesn’t feel right either. Recently, Psychologist Terri Apter wrote about the “phenomenon in human behavior.” She describes how catastrophic events reduce procrastination and lazy thinking.

Gentle physical touch stimulates "cuddle nerves" that lead to beneficial changes in the brain.

For the areas of cities with less than 10% green space, increasing that to 30% could cut the overall odds of residents becoming lonely by a quarter.

Early warning signs of self-harm can appear in children almost a decade before it starts, say researchers. The team at the University of Cambridge found two distinct groups that were more likely to harm themselves. The first included those who struggle to control their emotions, and the second featured youngsters more willing to take risks than others their age.

School closures in England during the Covid lockdown badly damaged the mental health of mothers but had no impact on fathers’ wellbeing, research has found.

How the Army adopted an untested, evidence-free approach to fighting PTSD.

Imagine you're at dinner with friends and you've just been introduced to the person next to you. Would you remember their name? Before she began to train her memory, Australian memory champion Anastasia Woolmer says she would have had no chance. She worried that she had a shoddy memory in general.

You don’t need to be an angel of altruism to get into volunteer work. It’s totally fine if you’re helping others in part for selfish reasons – you’re still doing some good. And a major reason to help others – as selfish as it may seem – is that doing so is proven to make you happier. When we do good for others, it does us good right back, basically.

I tried everything to treat my depression. Ketamine is the one thing that worked.

Around a third of the population have trouble sleeping, including difficulties maintaining sleep throughout the night.

A team of Welsh academics has developed a new method of supporting health professionals to make clinical decisions about people who may be at risk of taking their own lives.

Once mainly a scourge of VR headsets, cybersickness seems to be on the rise as the pandemic pushes our bodies to their digital limits.

The company has reached out to a number of researchers in recent months, though those same researchers are skeptical about the company's motivations.

Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory.

The problems humans face in an ever noisier world.

Sometimes words can speak as loudly as actions. So it goes with mental health. Many companies are mercifully taking employee stress and other psychological ailments more seriously. At the same time, few chief executives have been willing to open up about their personal struggles.

The Oxford study used data from more than 430,000 young people, gathered over 28 years.

Many people are talking about universal basic income (UBI) these days. Giving everyone a guaranteed income could be the solution to many economic woes. But one factor that hasn’t been mentioned much in discussions of UBI is how it might improve our mental health.