Psychology

Attending suicide callouts is taking a toll on the mental health of paramedics, causing nightmares and flashbacks and harming their personal relationships, a study by the University of Otago, Wellington—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Pōneke, has found.This […]

Women who serve in the armed forces have a unique life journey. They are a minority during service and a rarity in the civilian population. Their contributions to military service are often unknown, unrecognized, or […]

It’s only during the last few decades that neuroglia, a diverse group of cells found in the brain that perform a variety of functions to support neurons, have been the subject of research. Prior to […]

For years, research has shown that older adults who are lonely are at greater risk for cognitive decline and conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Those studies, however, generally treated loneliness as a stable trait of someone’s […]

With less than 30 seconds remaining in the Australia-Belgium women’s basketball bronze medal game at the Paris Olympics, Belgium was trailing by three points and on the attack, advancing the ball to a player for […]

If you experience trauma during childhood, there’s a greater chance you’ll use substances such as alcohol, tobacco and other drugs later. But what does the evidence say about vapes?This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Suicide remains a pressing public health concern. An estimated 703,000 people die by suicide each year worldwide, according to The World Health Organization. In 2022, there were 49,449 suicides in the United States.This article was […]

When it comes to estimating one’s own mobility, the brain turns out to be notoriously pessimistic. People can bend their wrist further than they think.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Two new studies and an accompanying short film have described the experiences of racially minoritized groups with physical and mental health conditions during the pandemic, depicting the inequalities they faced and continue to face.This article […]

Children too young to know words like “impossible” and “improbable” nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com