More articles about: Mental Health
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Tailored approach makes inroads in rural firearm safe storage
Rural gun-owning families responded favorably to a customized intervention to increase safe storage of rifles, handguns and other firearms in homes with children.
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Is it PMS or premenstrual dysphoric disorder?
For some women, it’s more than just premenstrual symptoms. 
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Homelessness, hospitals and mental health: Study shows impacts and costs
Housing status isn’t always recorded in medical records, so researchers say new data are likely just the “tip of the iceberg”.
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Social media: Top setting tips to promote positive boundaries, mental health for young people
Experts share tech savvy ways to better manage and control social media use on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube for youth, teens and kids.
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Stressed at work? A recent study focused on new doctors finds depression risk rises with hours worked
Depression and high numbers of duty hours worked by first-year doctors, called interns, are linked closely, with higher PHQ-9 screening scores among those working the most hours.
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Nine ways to prevent firearm tragedies near you
More injuries and deaths from firearms, including guns and rifles, could be prevented if parents and others took steps to lock weapons up, report problem behavior and teach children safety 
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Diversifying medicine
One student's award-winning vision for breaking down barriers.
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Neighborhoods play role in older adults’ pandemic experience
Your neighborhood is more impactful than you think when it comes to your social emotional health.
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As science searches for answers on depression, what should patients do today?
Serotonin’s precise role in depression is getting attention but SSRIs work for many, and basic neuroscience research goes far beyond ‘chemical imbalances.’
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Study provides first evidence of link between opioid use disorder, chronic pain
This first-of-its-kind study explores central sensitization.
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Children’s mental health is in crisis
Here are 7 things you can do right now to help.
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What does "Stranger Things" have to do with mental health?
A child and adolescent psychiatrist’s thoughts on Season 4 of Stranger Things.
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When reality fails: What to know about psychosis
Delusions, hearing voices, hallucinations, and other symptoms of psychosis can be treated and the earlier treatment begins, the better
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The history of physician burnout
A second-year medical student traces the origins of physician exhaustion and proposes several innovative solutions to the pervasive problem.
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Peak performance: how climbing mountains transformed a surgeon
Reaching the tallest peaks has not just made the veteran physician a better surgeon, it’s made him a better person.