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First-of-its-kind study from Penn Medicine identifies benefits of targeting internalized weight stigma in weight management PHILADELPHIA --People with obesity are often treated with less respect than other people, discriminated against,…

Children with mental health needs require urgent support from primary school onwards to avoid exclusion, which can be both cause and effect of poor mental health, new research concludes. The research, led by the University of Exeter,…

Credit: Ace Africa A first-of-its-kind clinical trial involving more than 600 children in Kenya and Tanzania, in which community members were trained to deliver mental health treatment, showed improvement in participants'…

Credit: NTU Singapore A study of families in Singapore with terminally ill children found that parents tend to defer discussing their psychological pain with their spouses to protect them from emotional distress. The study,…

Researchers developed an AI computer application that analyzes a patient's speech patterns to monitor their mental healthCredit: UCLA Health A new study finds that an interactive voice application using artificial intelligence is…

Modern tools to improve interpersonal communication may be having the opposite effect Experts in the Japanese phenomena of hikikomori say the condition of extreme social isolation is more widespread than previously acknowledged, and it…

Largest genetic study of anxiety to date reports findingsCredit: Robert Lisak In the largest genetic study on anxiety to date, VA researchers found new evidence on the underlying biological causes of the disorder. The study used VA Million…

A systematic review and meta-analysis finds there is insufficient evidence at present to answer that question.Credit: UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (December 19, 2019) - A new study that sought to find out whether…

Credit: NTU Singapore Most (93 per cent) mobile apps for suicide prevention and depression management do not provide all the six suicide prevention strategies that are commonly recommended in international clinical guidelines, a…

First study to show that anxiety could be decreased in youth who did not respond to earlier cognitive-behavior therapy Washington, DC, December 19, 2019 - Between 30 to 50 percent of youth in the United States diagnosed with an anxiety…