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Behavioral health is a costly challenge for healthcare organizations worldwide. Rising demand, clinician shortages, and full emergency rooms pressure providers and payers. Most healthcare leaders ...
A new study of 11 AI models reveals chatbots systematically favor the status quo, advising against electric vehicles and climate policies.
A new letter in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine argues that acceptance and commitment therapy should remain part of the insomnia treatment conversation despite mixed meta-analytic evidence.
DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — A new review of domestic violence-related homicides in Duval County is highlighting warning signs, gaps in ...
New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: What role do these bacteria play in human health?
Alzheimer's dementia accounts for about 50% to 80% of dementia cases, vascular dementia for 20% to 30%, Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's dementia for about 5%, and frontotemporal dementia for 5% to ...
Michigan still has a state-run juvenile psychiatric facility, and it's one with a design meant to foster a peaceful environment for recovery.
The Trump administration is sending more than $17 million in Rural Health Transformation Program funds to North Carolina to build out behavioral health and addiction treatment for rural residents.
A recent experiment found that physical attractiveness does not protect internet trolls from judgment. When encountering online misogyny, users rely on the severity of the message itself rather than being swayed by the…
People with a strong preference for intensely sweet tastes tend to choose immediate, smaller rewards over delayed ones. New research suggests this impatience is largely explained by a general aversion to risk rather than…
A new ketamine study suggests sleep and mood improvements may follow different patterns.
North Carolina received over $213 million in federal funding for mental health and substance use services, according to FOX Carolina News. That federal money flows through the Rural Health ...
The CEO and founder of a digital behavior company has advice for health plans considering asynchronous behavioral health services like those that his company provides.
It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional Asian recipe to make their own. They call it a "labor of love."
If you are struggling with an anxiety disorder, you have probably been told that avoidance makes things worse. You’ve heard it from therapists, read it in articles, seen it on social media. Avoidance ...
Dozens of state officials, healthcare providers and community members celebrated the completion of the new 406,000-square-foot, 264-bed Southeast Michigan Psychiatric Hospital in Northville ...
Researchers exploring Functional Neurological Disorder found that while genetics alone don't explain the condition, epigenetic markers and salivary oxytocin levels interact in ways that align with a patient's history of…
Federal officials and addiction specialists in the Chicago area are sounding the alarm on a highly potent and addictive drug that can be found at gas stations and vape shops amid a crackdown effort by ...
But consciousness creates another puzzle. It doesn’t merely allow humans to experience the world. It enables us to reflect on our own behaviour, experiment, make choices and ask ...
Blocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery could help researchers…
People who view the world as devoid of meaning are more likely to support political violence. A new study suggests that simple exercises to find everyday meaning could help reduce these violent extremist intentions.
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Rosanna Castro September 22, 2026 at 1:57pm Children as young as 4 with a higher body mass index (BMI) showed differences in several brain regions ...
WKU professor Dr. Patrick Ledwidge earns a $600,968 NIH grant to study brain activity behind sports injuries, using mobile EEG technology to improve injury prevention.
Researchers have successfully trained computer models to decode the structure of imagined melodies from human brain waves. By tracking relative pitch, the models reconstructed the melodic contours of silent songs…
A new Curtin University study has found almost half of people who experience a concussion still experience problems a year later, while also revealing ...
Winning a lottery prize of about $140,000 made single Swedish men roughly 30 percent more likely to marry within five years. For married women, a similar windfall nearly doubled the short-term risk of divorce.
A few years ago, 30 special forces veterans suffering for years with the psychiatric consequences of multiple traumatic brain injuries—including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and ...
Based on the current legislative calendar, MAID for patients whose sole underlying condition is mental illness are scheduled to be able to access it on March 17, 2027. However, the new government ...
In June, a special parliamentary committee recommended the Liberal government draw a line in the sand and indefinitely exclude people with mental illness alone from eligibility for MAID. Expanding ...
People with mental illness alone were to be eligible for assisted dying in Canada in March 2027, but that has now been paused indefinitely.