Mental Health

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Around the world, women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with depression.

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Fish Are Swimming in Happy Pills. Here’s Why That’s Bad.

Amid decades of growing antidepressant use, the drugs are showing up in aquatic environments. Even vanishingly small concentrations of these drugs can change fish’s brains and alter their behavior.

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Could Mitochondria Be the Key to a Healthy Brain?

Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

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Light and the Brain

Light influences the brain more than you can imagine.

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Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception

Some neuroscientists think psychedelic drugs and the hallucinations they induce could help reveal how the brain generates our perceptions of the world around us — and of ourselves.

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COVID-19 and Mental Health

The uncertainty of the pandemic’s end has caused stress, anxiety, and even depression.

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Unseen Scars of Childhood Trauma

Twenty years of research have established the connection between adverse childhood experiences and long-term health. Now researchers are looking for ways to measure the biology behind the correlation and try to reverse it.