Tag: mental health
Myths around mental illness cause high rates of unemployment
Bandy X. Lee, Yale University
Even though mental illness affects one in five adults – and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide –...
To stop police shootings of people with mental health disabilities, I...
Jennifer Sarrett, Emory University
After Shukri Ali Said left her house during a mental health crisis on April 23, 2018, her sister called 911 for...
Zero-hour contracts take a huge mental and physical toll – poor...
Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi, University of Hertfordshire and Janet Barlow, University of Hertfordshire
The number of workers on zero-hours contracts continues to rise in the UK....
Why it matters that more athletes are talking about their mental...
John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa taking questions after...
Are brain games mostly BS?
Walter Boot, Florida State University
You’ve probably seen ads for apps promising to make you smarter in just a few minutes a day. Hundreds of...
6 ways to protect your mental health from social media’s dangers
Jelena Kecmanovic, Georgetown University
More than one-third of American adults view social media as harmful to their mental health, according to a new survey from...
The mental health crisis among America’s youth is real – and...
Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
The first signs of a problem started to emerge around 2014: More young people said they felt overwhelmed and...
Paid family leave is an investment in public health, not a...
Darby Saxbe, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Most Americans – on both sides of the political aisle –...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
