The results gained in a study involving approximately one million Danish children increase the understanding of how socio-economic differences in childhood affect the development of mental disorders in the Nordic countries.

The number of suicides in Japan rose in October for the fourth month in a row to the highest level in more than five years, data showed on Tuesday, a trend activists have blamed on the economic impact of the coronavirus, on women in particular.

A new study, published in the journal Education Research, investigates how young people make sense of their mental health and the factors they see as causing increased distress. The results of the in-depth interviews, conducted in Denmark, identified a growing gap between the realities of young people’s lives and their individualized expectations as a primary driver of poor mental health.

Gamers who played titles for longer reported feeling happier than those who did not.

If you're worried about your kids' mental health, particularly because of the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing mandates, less screen time and more extracurricular activities will help, says a new study. Adolescents -- especially girls -- who spend more time in extracurricular activities and less than two hours of screen time after school have better mental health, according to a study from the University of British Columbia and published in the journal Preventive Medicine.

Oxford University has produced some interesting information regarding the link between video games and the player’s wellbeing. The study used industry data on playtime of the following video games: Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The results of the study are uplifting.

Neil Ansell became a hermit entirely by accident. Back in the 1980s, he was living in a squat in London with 20 other people. Then someone made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: a cottage in the Welsh mountains, with rent of just £100 ($130) per year. This was a place so wild, the night sky was a continuous carpet of stars – and the neighbours were a pair of ravens, who had lived in the same cedar tree for 20 years.

The happier we feel, the less likely we are to experience memory decline.

A new study published in Royal Society Open Science found that citizens who lack confidence in their government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak show heightened fear and paranoia. This heightened fear is then linked to increased distress. It is clear that the novel coronavirus has had drastic repercussions on the lives of citizens all over the world, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling for unprecedented social distancing on a global scale.

Most people are only thinking about themselves. It's a simple concept, however, one that's hard for a lot of people to grasp. If you can train your mind to realize that most people are too self-absorbed to care about your actions you will sleep better at night.

A study published in Environment and Behavior suggests that people feel attached to wilderness landscapes due to nature’s ability to fulfill the basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

A new mental health treatment using the psychedelic compound psilocybin raises questions about medicine and values

Wayne Chen's lab at UCalgary identifies a way to interrupt and prevent progression of devastating condition

People recovering from COVID-19 may suffer significant brain function impacts, with the worst cases of the infection linked to mental decline equivalent to the brain ageing by 10 years, researchers warned on Tuesday.

According to a new study from the University of California, Irvine the rising levels of depression, stress and anxiety in the United States are directly linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and exposure to media coverage of the virus. Published on September 18 in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, the groundbreaking report was authored by E. Alison Holman, Rebecca R. Thompson, Dana Rose Garfin and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Researchers at Penn State and Jinan University discovered that excessive use of social media for COVID-19 health information is related to both depression and secondary trauma.

Living with a mental illness means always trying to be one of the "good" sick

Depressed individuals do not display an information-processing bias towards negative emotional stimuli, according to new research

Adults and children are regularly shackled and locked up in 60 countries, report finds

A regular dose of awe is a simple way to boost healthy ‘prosocial’ emotions such as compassion and gratitude, according to a new study by researchers at the UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center (MAC) and the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) – a partnership between UCSF and Trinity College Dublin to improve brain health worldwide.