The pandemic put a spotlight on mental health and burnout within health care professions, but emerging research reveals these issues have been affecting health care workers for years, with suicide rates notably high among physicians and nurses.

Narcissists have impairment in social functioning, which can have profound effects on the people who love them or spend time with them. A study published in Personality and Mental Health sought to understand how people with narcissistic loved ones are affected. Results showed many negative outcomes, such as increased anxiety, depression, and somatic concerns.

Is exercise really that important to individual’s mental health? A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that exercise is related to lower levels of depression, even for people who are doing less physical activity than is recommended by public health professionals.

"Scrolling social media is so ubiquitous that [we] do it almost without thinking from the moment we wake up to when we close our eyes at night."

Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety.

Much has been said about the healing power of nature. Now, some medical professionals in Canada are increasingly prescribing it.

Trigger warnings, which are statements intended to warn people about being exposed to potentially upsetting material, have garnered much debate as to their effectiveness at protecting people from emotional distress. New research published in PLos ONE suggests that reading about triggering traumatic material did not result in an increase in trauma symptoms in both people who did and people who did not have PTSD symptoms. ...

Many people think the popular social media app TikTok is only used to post dancing videos, but there is evidence that people can find community and support through it. An article published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence explores substance use recovery-focused videos on TikTok.

A broad range of problems may lead to youths' mental health decline. A new survey from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals bleak circumstances for many U.S. teens, who were already more likely to suffer from abuse and depression while staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personality and subjective age are related, according to a new study published in the journal Psychology and Aging. Feeling younger than one’s age is associated with numerous positive outcomes, including a lower risk of incident dementia and mortality. Conversely, “an older subjective age can help identify individuals who are at risk for poor health, cognitive decline, and impairment,” write Yannick Stephan and colleagues.

Psilocybin fosters greater connections between different regions of the brain in depressed people, freeing them up from long-held patterns of rumination and excessive self-focus, according to a new study by scientists at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London.

A person’s level of intelligence was related to their psychological response to COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research published in the Journal of Personality. The study found that more intelligent people tended to be less happy with their lives during the pandemic than their less intelligent counterparts.

In a place where shoelaces could be weapons and no doors stayed fully closed, I found dazzling relief.

Dr. Zaiim, the medical director of Carolina Integrative Clinic, is a general practitioner who is board certified in pediatrics and integrative medicine.

A family tragedy sheds light on a burgeoning mental-health emergency.

The relationship between exercise and improved mental health is one that, paradoxically, can be a source of despair for some. It is a snake that eats its tail: exercise can help get you out of a slump, but the mental health low is what keeps you from mustering the energy to exercise in the first place. New research, however, holds potential hope: it suggests that playing, singing, or listening to music may have the same mental health benefits as exercising or losing weight.

“Music,” wrote the late neurologist Oliver Sacks, “has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.” A new analysis has empirically confirmed something that rings true for many music lovers – that singing, playing or listening to music can improve wellbeing and quality of life.

The researchers set out to see if there had been an increase in the numbers of older people who were reporting their first concerns about memory loss or cognitive decline to their doctor and what their chances of developing dementia were after consultation.

With increased reports of depression and bias-based bullying among people who identify with terms including nonbinary, transgender and pansexual, now may be time for the adults of the United States to become more inclusive, a new study shows.

The craze for psychedelics used for therapeutic purposes is real. However, the scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness and explaining their mode of action in treating mental health disorders is still very thin. A new study led by Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a senior scientist in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), sheds light on previously unexplained neurobiological mechanisms by which LSD is believed to relieve anxiety.