Clinic launches suicide prevention campaign for women veterans In September 2025, the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at the Up Center in Virginia Beach launched a campaign to raise awareness for what it calls an overlooked mental health crisis: the high rate of suicide among women veterans. Read More
Couples should never go to bed angry, right? It might be time to rethink that It's late at night, and you have been stewing all day about something your partner did to annoy you. The time to resolve it is now because, as everyone knows, you should never go to bed angry, right? Read More
Tiny sugars in the brain disrupt emotional circuits, fueling depression Depression is a serious disorder that disrupts daily life through lethargy, sleep disturbance, and social withdrawal, and also increases the risk of suicide. The number of depression patients has steadily increased over the years, affecting more than 280 million people worldwide as of 2025. Now, researchers have uncovered a new pathological mechanism that could provide clues for the diagnosis and treatment of depression. Read More
Job changes may cause headaches and insomnia Researchers at University of Tsukuba have found that people who have switched jobs are more likely to experience symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, and insomnia, based on the results of an internet survey conducted with approximately 20,000 people in Japan. Read More
Untreated depression can make surgical outcomes worse in cancer patients Depression is known to be associated with physical health challenges, in everything from disrupting sleep to an increased cancer risk. Depression can also affect surgical outcomes and postoperative costs, according to new study findings. Read More
Mastectomy linked to worsened sexual health and body image after surgery While mastectomy is often a necessary and life-saving treatment option for many women with breast cancer, the surgery may contribute to worse sexual health, body image, and several other physical and emotional challenges after surgery, according to a new systematic review on the effects of mastectomy in women with breast cancer. Surgeons said the research underscores the importance of screening women before they undergo a mastectomy. Read More
What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu? Do you ever get that peculiar feeling that what you're doing or seeing has already happened, even when you're pretty sure it hasn't? Read More
Death toll from drugs has more than doubled worldwide over past three decades, study finds Drug use disorder (DUDs), also called drug addiction, is the chronic and relapsing use of psychoactive substances in spite of considerable harm to the patient. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has estimated that more than 250 million people around the world used illegal drugs at least occasionally in 2021, while 39.5 million people suffered from DUD. Read More
Model reveals mental health gains outweigh physical health in predicting life satisfaction In the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health, Steve Haake from Sheffield Hallam University and colleagues present a model for evaluating life satisfaction. They demonstrate their model using participants in a weekly running event as a case study, finding that increases in health, especially mental health, most strongly predict improvements in life satisfaction. Read More
Teens deserve a kinder inner voice: Unfolding research from India During one of my visits to schools in Delhi, I asked the students: "When something doesn't go the way you expected, or when you fail at something, it feels bad, right? What do you say to yourself in those moments?" Read More