Tag: anxiety

Women suffering more than men due to Covid-19 isolation

The findings, published in Frontiers in Global Women's Health, suggest sex and gender differences may play a role in psychological and behavioural reactions to the pandemic.

December 24, 2020

Stress in pregnancy may influence baby’s brain development

The study, published in the journal eLife, suggests that stress levels in mothers - measured by a hormone linked to anxiety and other health problems - is related to changes in areas of the infant brain associated with emotional development.

November 29, 2020

Low fitness may increase depression and anxiety: Study

Their baseline aerobic fitness at the start of the study period was tested by using a stationary bike the increasing resistance, while their muscular fitness was measured with a grip strength test.

November 14, 2020

Study reveals how sleep loss puts people at greater anxiety risk

The study, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, provided new insights into how sleep deprivation affects brain function to disrupt fear extinction.

November 12, 2020

Covid-19 can trigger OCD in kids and young people: Study

The study, published in the journal BMC Psychiatry, also shown us that Covid-19 may be associated with adults developing psychiatric disorders.

November 10, 2020

Why depression, anxiety are diagnosed more in women than men

Gender is a significant determining factor in mental health and in how it is managed by the healthcare services, according to recent studies conducted in Spain by the UPV/EHU's research group OPIK, Social Determinants of Health and Demographic Change.

November 4, 2020

Pets linked to better human health

The fact that they do not judge you materialistically but your ability to share and love others make them a crucial part of your mental and emotional health.

September 26, 2020

Anxiety rates due to job insecurity similar among men, women

"Public health consequences of job insecurity need to be seriously considered, given that recent changes due to Covid-19 crisis, are likely to result in a higher prevalence of workers, both males and females, feeling threatened by involuntary job loss," said study researchers from the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy.

September 17, 2020

Researchers decode brain mechanism of taking risks

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, may help understand the neural mechanisms in mental disorders that feature increased or reduced avoidance.

August 31, 2020

Learning more about COVID-19 reduces pandemic-related stress: Study

'Covid-19 is a new disease -- it's not something that people worried about before so we wanted to see how people were responding to and coping with this new source of stress,' said study co-author Shevaun Neupert from North Carolina State University in the US.

August 11, 2020

Yoga helps in combating stress, anxiety, depression: AIIMS study

According to researchers, coronavirus can set off a cytokine storm and calming down this storm is key for survival. Cytokines are molecules which regulate the activity of the immune system.

June 23, 2020

‘Coronavirus overdose’ on TV, social media wreaking havoc on mental and physical health of people

He was instantly rushed to Patna’s Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) where the doctors said he had suffered a brain haemorrhage.

April 13, 2020

Transforming life with compassion, vision and belief

Live with Compassion, Metamorphosing Beliefs and No Peripheral Route to Persuasion.

July 15, 2019

Anxiety, OCD in kids may lead to suicidal thoughts

The risk of suicide was determined in a personal interview and was present in 12.2 per cent of the children with an average age of 11 years old.

July 13, 2019

Ayurveda, a powerful way to cure depression

Ayurveda recommends a few ways of countering depression by treating the causes in the form of Yoga, intake of organic herbs and therapies.

June 27, 2019

Back pain linked to risky behaviours in teenagers

Adolescent back pain may play a role in characterizing poor overall health, and risk of chronic disease throughout life.

September 11, 2018

Anxiety, depression may worsen your heart health

Heart failure is a chronic, progressive condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood, causing symptoms such as fatigue and shortness of breath.

July 9, 2018