Mind/Body

A new meta-analysis analyzes randomized control trials of Mindfulness-Based Interventions for adolescents.

What media hype and those selling mindfulness don’t tell you is that mindfulness is a process that can radically transform you, and it’s not always safe, nor is it easy or straightforward. We make it safer by being aware of the risks and learning to listen to our own bodies about when it is or isn’t okay for us. No one else actually knows.

Study finds that individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression have diets that are more inflammatory and higher in calories.

A new study in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience has found that the smell of lavender extract has an anxiolytic effect.

A recent review suggests that depression guidelines do not incorporate evidence for exercise within a stepped-care approach and may be over-reliant on pharmacological treatments.

A new study examines the association of mindfulness and stigma resistance among individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis.

A new study finds ideal sleep duration differs in adolescents for peak mental health and academic outcomes.

The world calls what was "wrong" with me "bipolar." I prefer the notion that I went through a birth process to become the healer that I am today. I can't be silent because I know there are people like I was who are trapped and may not realize it yet. When they begin to see the prison bars that surround them, I want to be there for them as others were for me.

New research examines factors that make mindfulness interventions in school most effective for adolescent’s mental health outcomes.

The drugs combined with my desire to know how life worked and what made a human broke down all past social conditioning of my individual self. I realized I was God. So was everyone else and I shared with anyone who would listen, but found no one who could understand or navigate the territory. There was little internet to speak of then and no Google to find others who experienced life as I was, so I voyaged on my own as best I could.

Study finds adults with a pro-inflammatory diet have a greater incidence of depression.

New research examines important factors of adherence when prescribing exercise to treat depression.

The only way out of the epidemic of feeling-people-turned-medicated-psychiatric-patients is to rebrand and reframe feeling as a cultural collective. And I believe it starts with our messaging as parents and our orientation toward shadow elements like anger and sadness. We have to model a conscious relationship to our own dark parts, and we have to show our children what it looks like to move through these spaces. Feelings can be messy, wild, and sometimes ugly to our constrained sensibilities.

New research demonstrates the lasting effects of mindfulness training on stress and wellbeing among university students.

My experience is that living in a psychosis forces your brain to "stretch" — you develop extra capacity to handle things. I was pretty much living a normal life, even working some of the time, while having all of my psychotic problems. After the psychoses faded away, I no longer needed to fight monsters, but I still had that extra capacity left. After 11 periods of psychosis, my brain has never worked as well as it does now.

A new study examines the effects of midlife exercise on depression and cardiovascular health later in life.

A new study investigates the effects of mindfulness-based interventions on employee’s wellbeing across different workplace environments.

Are philosophical misunderstandings behind the failure of neuroscience to provide useful clinical research?

Higher levels of physical activity serve as a protective factor for the future development of depression.

A new study investigates the relationships between early-home environmental factors and later-life physiological response to psychosocial stressors.

Experiencing moderate to severe pain, or having at least moderate life interference from pain, doubles risk for anxiety or depression.

From TIME: A new study has found that resistance exercise training, such as weightlifting and strength training, is associated with a significant reduction in depressive...

Anthropologists analyze discourse surrounding anthropological engagement with the neurosciences in an editorial recently published in Medical Anthropology.

A new study finds that a school-based yoga program improves third graders’ emotional and psychosocial quality of life.

A meta-analysis of mindfulness-based interventions shows efficacy for treating depression, physical pain, smoking, and addictive disorders.