Beyond Genes: Leveraging Sleep, Exercise, and Nutrition to Improve ADHD
ADHD is genetic, but it is also environmental — to a degree. You can’t change your DNA. But you CAN change your eating, fitness, and sleep habits — all of…
What Are the Harms of Vaping?
Most e-cigarettes (vapes) contain nicotine—the addictive drug in regular cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products. Nicotine can harm the adolescent brain which continues developing until about age 25. Using nicotine…
5 physical and mental health benefits of dark chocolate
Eating dark chocolate for your health may sound counterintuitive, but it is actually a superfood packed with nutrients and health benefits such as easing symptoms of depression and reducing risk…
Research Reveals the Hidden Cost of Sleepless Nights on Mental Health: Here’s What Can Be Done
Anyone who’s woken up from a poor night’s sleep knows how missing your Zs can make you more testy and quicker to react negatively to situations you’d typically handle with ease…
Managing Bipolar Disorder During Pregnancy: How PharmDs Can Help
By Donavyn Coffey Pregnancy is marked by joy but also challenges, including the acute stress of sleep deprivation, mood swings and hormonal fluctuations that are all the more problematic for…
The Effect of Self-Monitoring Limited Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being
An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of self-monitoring limited social media usage on psychological well-being. After completing pretest measures, 230 undergraduate students from a large Midwestern university…
Minnesota mental health professionals say climate concerns driving patients to depression
More than half of Minnesota’s mental health professionals report seeing anxiety, depression and chronic psychological distress related to climate concerns among their patients, according to a study by researchers at the…
Don’t strive for perfection – find happiness in the everyday
Life is not a performance, subject to the judgment of others, so put satisfaction over self-improvement, writes Yvonne Williams Could we aim for what gives us satisfaction, happiness, contentment and fulfilment?…
High and Low Estrogen Exacerbate ADHD Symptoms in Females: New Theory
The impact of rising and falling hormone levels on ADHD symptoms is compounded for females beginning in puberty, according to a review article published in Hormones and Behavior. ADHD symptoms correlate…
Gut microbes may play role in social anxiety disorder, say researchers
Study that involved transplanting people’s microbes into mice may show way to possible therapies, say scientists While some people might relish the prospect of a new year party, for others…
