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Participating in a series of cognitive training sessions has helped Quebec seniors cope with memory loss - even five years later, an UdeM study finds. Can training your brain to remember things help you ward off the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease? A new Canadian study suggests that yes, it can - even five years after you got the training.

Previous studies have shown that patients immediately following and up to one year after discharge from in-patient psychiatric treatment have an increased risk of suicide. A MedUni Vienna research team has now analyzed the data of 18,425 patients treated at MedUni Vienna's Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Vienna General Hospital over 15 years.

A University of Sydney led study has revealed a dual mental health and vaping crisis among young Australians, with high-school students struggling with mental health, stress and wellbeing more likely to have tried e-cigarettes. A study on vaping behaviour among Australian high school students has found those who reported severe depressive symptoms were over twice as likely to have tried e-cigarettes, compared to those reporting no depressive symptoms.

Most people who exercise using VR drop out when things gets too tough or dull - could programs that use sensors to tune into a person's emotional state help? Virtual reality (VR) video games that combine screen time with exercise are a great way to get fit, but game designers face a major challenge - like with regular exercise, adherence to 'exergames' is low, with most users dropping out once they start to feel uncomfortable or bored.

The risk gene adenylyl cyclase 2 is associated with bipolar disorder, as has been repeatedly confirmed in genome-wide association studies. However, until now there has not been any proof of a causal relationship. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry have now provided this: for the first time, they experimentally demonstrated that mice with a risk variant of the gene showed behavioral changes reminiscent of manic symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder.

A new study clearly shows how important it is to emphasize consensus among climate scientists Climate scientists have long agreed that humans are largely responsible for climate change. A new study, co-led by Bojana Veckalov from the University of Amsterdam and Sandra Geiger from the University of Vienna, finds that communicating the scientific consensus about climate change can clear up misperceptions and strengthen beliefs about the existence and the causes of climate change.

This condition in children predicts anxiety about the transition from primary to secondary school, loss of motivation and difficulty adapting in the first year of secondary school, according to research from the Faculty of Education. A longitudinal study by Université Laval shows that evaluation anxiety during primary school exams is linked to a lack of academic motivation and worries about the transition to secondary school.

New research reveals how short bursts of daily mindfulness can boost wellbeing, combat depression and anxiety, and inspire healthier lifestyle choices. In a new study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology, researchers from the Universities of Bath and Southampton have unveiled how just 10 minutes of daily mindfulness practice can improve wellbeing, ease depression and anxiety, and help people to be more motivated to improve their lifestyle - including healthier exercise, eating and sleeping habits.

Rohingya children, whose lives have been marked by flight and displacement, have retained their prosociality as a fundamental human trait in the face of adversity.

Not all pain is the same. Depending on the cause, it requires different therapies. A team led by ETH Zurich has now developed a method that enables physicians to better distinguish between physical and psychosocial pain. Severe pain often has physical causes. But emotional, psychological and social factors can influence how we perceive and react to pain.

Children who experienced inflammation at a young age at higher risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases. Children who have persistently raised inflammation are at a higher risk of experiencing serious mental health disorders including psychosis and depression in early adulthood, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A higher incidence of mental illnesses persists for up to a year following severe Covid-19 in unvaccinated people, according to a new study involving UCL researchers. The study, looking at health data from 18 million people and published in JAMA Psychiatry , investigated associations of Covid-19 with mental illnesses according to time since diagnosis and vaccination status.

One of the most effective means of investigating and understanding autism is eye tracking. Participants are shown photos or videos, and computer software records where their gaze rests. Autistic individuals are more likely to focus on nonsocial aspects of an image, such as objects or background patterns, while neurotypical subjects have an increased propensity to focus on people's faces.

Perimenopausal women are more likely to experience bipolar and major depressive disorders, according to new research by Cardiff University. In a study of 128,294 female participants from the UK, a team from the University's School of Medicine and Bipolar UK investigated whether perimenopause - the years surrounding the final menstrual period - is associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric disorders for the first time.

Chronic pain and insomnia often occur together and can seriously affect patient well-being. To improve the quality of life of people who experience chronic pain and associated sleep disorders, the Pain in Motion and Brain, Body and Cognition research groups of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel teamed up with the SPINE research group of the University of Ghent for a large-scale investigation.

Dr. Valerie Taylor, MD, PhD, psychiatrist, professor and researcher at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) is recruiting people for two studies using fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), often called poop pills, as a potential treatment for two mental health illnesses,  major depressive disorder  and  obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Mental disorders can be characterized by many symptoms, but certain symptom combinations are more common than others, researchers find. Mental disorders like depression and anxiety are characterized by a variety of different symptoms, and individuals receiving the same diagnosis may experience different combinations of those symptoms.

Increasing serotonin can change how people learn from negative information, as well as improving how they respond to it, according to a new study published in the leading journal Nature Communications .

A new study finds sexual minorities still experience a greater burden of mental health and substance use conditions than heterosexual people despite legislative and policy advances and improvements in social attitudes in recent decades. Led by SFU health sciences assistant professor Travis Salway, the study, published in SSM - Population Health , found that inequalities in mental health and substance use conditions between sexual minority and heterosexual populations have not improved since 2003.

Datasets that are too small may lead researchers to overlook relationships between the brain and behavior, a new study finds. When designing machine learning models, researchers first train the models to recognize data patterns and then test their effectiveness. But if the datasets used to train and test aren't sufficiently large, models may appear to be less capable than they actually are, a new Yale study reports.