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• ‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’: the stressed ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for help

  18-06-2024 17:42
  
  Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Haghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tell us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettésEarlier this year, Yasmine Naghdi was struggling in the rehearsal studio. Naghdi is one of the Royal Ballet’s leading dancers and her performance of Swan Lake would be livestreamed into cinemas around the world. But although known for her crystalline technique, she became almost
  
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• LGBTQ+ Mental Healthcare Program Opens in San Diego

  07-04-2025 14:41 via pr.com
  
  A new era of healing and self-discovery begins with the launch of Element Q Healing Center, a transformative program dedicated to holistic wellness, trauma healing, and mental health treatment. Brought to you by the team at Monima Behavioral Health, Element Q is a mental health PHP (Partial Hospitalization Program) and IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program) serving the LGBTQ+ communities of San Diego and beyond. [PR.com]
  
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• Most Books Targeted for Censorship in U.S. Involve LGBTQ, Race Topics

  07-04-2025 13:52 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThere were over 800 attempts in 2024 to censor library books in the U.S., most of which concerned LGBTQ and race issues—the third-highest number of challenges to books ever recorded by the American Library Association. The ALA released a report with these numbers after President Donald Trump took steps to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, created by Congress as a federal funding stream dedicated to public libraries.
  
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• Exposure to Wildfire Smoke Linked to Mental Health Hospital Visits

  07-04-2025 09:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthWhen people inhale fine particles in the air—for example, from smog—these particles can reach the brain, potentially causing inflammation and vascular damage. In a new study, Harvard researchers found that exposure to fine particles from California wildfire smoke was associated with increased hospital emergency department visits for depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems—hitting female, young, Black, and Hispanic individuals...
  
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• Treating Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

  07-04-2025 09:35 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA MonitorBorderline personality disorder is the most commonly diagnosed personality disorder in clinical populations, marked by extreme emotions, thinking, and behavior, unstable relationships, and insecurity. People with the disorder may see themselves as bad or worthless, and their evaluations of others can change rapidly—from idealizing to devaluing. Although it's unclear what causes BPD, evidence suggests that it can be effectively treated through...
  
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• White House Cuts More Than $125M in LGBTQ Health Research

  06-04-2025 18:40 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: APA PsycPORT™: Psychology NewswireLGBTQ research in the United States is collapsing. In recent weeks, academics who focus on improving the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans have been subjected to waves of grant cancellations from the National Institutes of Health. More than 270 grants totaling at least $125 million of unspent funds have been eliminated, though the true sum is likely much greater, researchers told NBC News.
  
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• New York Schools Refuses to Comply With Trump DEI Order

  06-04-2025 18:40 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google NewsNew York state officials have told the Trump administration that they will not comply with demands to end diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in public schools, despite the administration's threats to terminate education funding. Daniel Morton-Bentley, counsel and deputy commissioner of the state's department of education, said in a letter dated Friday that state officials do not believe the administration has authority to make such...
  
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• EcoCooks: Teaching Kids About Food and Climate at the Same Time

  06-04-2025 18:40 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsA unique program called EcoCooks has been providing Canadian children with hands-on lessons about food—cooked or grown by students themselves—and mixing in environmental education, which educators say has been a recipe for success. The nonprofit after-school club program teaches young people about the link between food and climate change, while also building their cooking skills and empowering them to take action.
  
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• U.S. Weather Service Pauses Severe Weather Alerts in Spanish

  06-04-2025 18:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS ScienceThe National Weather Service has paused automated services that provide severe weather alerts in in Spanish and other languages besides English after the government contract for those services expired, the agency confirmed to PBS News. The contract for artificial intelligence modeling that previously sent emergency alerts in different languages is among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contracts that lapsed this week.
  
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• Cognitive Decline Often Comes Sooner for People with Heart Failure

  06-04-2025 18:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthThere are over six million Americans with heart failure who are at greater risk of losing their cognitive abilities earlier in life, suggests a new study published in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure. The study found that global cognition and executive functioning declined more rapidly over the years after heart failure diagnosis, as people with the condition mentally aged the equivalent of 10 years within just seven years of a heart...
  
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• 2 U.S. Agencies Unite to Enforce Trump Bans on Transgender Activities

  06-04-2025 18:36 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsA new Title IX Special Investigations team will focus on enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender women from competing on female sports teams and using restrooms designated for women. The U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Education will work together "to apply a rapid resolution investigation process to the increasing volume of Title IX cases," according to a joint news release Friday.
  
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• Realising we’re all made-up characters in a story world helps me understand people

  06-04-2025 14:00
  
  Considering everyone is a protagonist in their own narrative brought clarity for Will StorrFor nearly 20 years, I’ve been researching and writing about the human brain as a storyteller. My work has unalterably changed the way I see the human world in general, and myself in particular. It has helped me understand everything from political hatred and religions to cults to the nature of identity and suicidal thought. It has even made sense of my own lifelong struggle with making friends.Our e
  
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• Intrusive thoughts have convinced me I’m repulsive to look at | Ask Philippa

  06-04-2025 07:00
  This inner critic isn’t you, it’s just a voice that has been given far too much authorityThe question I am struggling with intrusive and increasingly critical self-talk around my appearance. So much so that some days I struggle to look in the mirror. I’ve recently had a baby and assumed that my long history of feeling ugly, lesser and fundamentally inadequate would be surpassed by being a mother and having an external concern other than myself but, if anything, it’s worse
  
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• Forgiveness is not beneficial for everyone | Letters

  04-04-2025 18:50
  
  While the act may help some, it can harm others, says Amanda Ann GregoryWhile I deeply respect the work of Fred Luskin and Robert Enright, psychologists should be careful not to suggest that forgiveness is beneficial for everyone (Leave the hurt behind! How to let go of a grudge, 26 March). It isn’t. There is no one-size-fits-all solution in mental health. While forgiveness may help some, it can harm others.Trauma survivors are often encouraged to forgive their abusers, with the promi
  
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• Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field

  03-04-2025 18:22 via nbcnews.com
  The administration’s cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling the LGBTQ-focused research field, built out of nothing over a quarter-century.
  
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• U.S. Government May Pull $9 Billion From Harvard Over Anti-Semitism

  02-04-2025 09:54 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe U.S. Department of Education announced the Trump administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is investigating alleged anti-Semitism on Harvard's campus. The Department announced Monday that will review the $255.6 million in federal contracts and $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments awarded to Harvard and its affiliates. In response, Harvard President Alan Garber acknowledged Monday that the university still has "much...
  
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• Trump Administration Freezes Dozens of Research Grants to Princeton

  02-04-2025 09:54 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsThe Trump administration suspended dozens of research grants to Princeton University on Tuesday, making it the latest Ivy League school to lose federal funding over allegations of anti-Semitism. "We will cooperate with the government in combating anti-Semitism," wrote Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber in a letter to students and faculty, adding that "Princeton will also vigorously defend academic freedom and the due process rights of...
  
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• New Blood Test Can Diagnose and Track Progression of Alzheimer's

  02-04-2025 09:54 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthA new blood test could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's. In addition to detecting the disease, the test helps determine the stage of its progression. This work, published in the journal Nature Medicine, may fundamentally change how doctors manage Alzheimer's care. "We're about to enter the era of personalized medicine for Alzheimer's disease," said Kanta Horie, research associate professor of neurology and lead author of...
  
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• Less Deep Sleep Linked to Brain Shrinkage, Alzheimer's Risk

  02-04-2025 09:54 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google NewsNew research shows that reduced time in slow wave and REM sleep is related to smaller brain volumes in regions vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease. Using sleep studies and brain imaging data from 270 participants, the study found that poor sleep architecture was linked to brain atrophy. These links held even after controlling for factors like age, heart health, and lifestyle, suggesting that disrupted sleep may be a modifiable risk factor for...
  
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• The big idea: should you trust your gut?

  31-03-2025 13:30
  
  ‘Follow your instincts’ has become a modern mantra. But what if they lead you astray? ‘What should I do?” Whether openly stated or implicit, this is the question a new client usually raises in their first therapy session. People come to see me for many reasons: relationship problems, addiction and mental health difficulties, such as anxiety. Increasingly, I have found that beneath all of these disparate problems lies a common theme: indecision, the sense of feeling stuck,
  
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• Osaka High Court Rules Same-Sex Marriage Ban "Unconstitutional"

  31-03-2025 11:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsJapan's Osaka High Court ruled Tuesday that the country's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The court's ruling is the fifth decision to call Japan's same-sex marriage ban a violation of the country's constitution, following similar rulings in the high courts of Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka, and Nagoya. Japan is currently the only International Group of Seven country that does not recognize same-sex marriage.
  
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• Judge Blocks Texas A&M's Drag Show Ban

  31-03-2025 11:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsA federal judge has blocked the Texas A&M University System from enforcing a drag show ban, handing a victory to an LGBTQ+ student group. The lawsuit was filed by the Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council after the university system's Board of Regents voted to ban drag shows because they "likely create or contribute to a hostile environment for women... as these events often involve unwelcome and objectively offensive conduct based on sex."
  
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• Germany Decides to Leave History in the Past and Prepare for War

  31-03-2025 11:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - Top HeadlinesGermany's military, the Bundeswehr, recently got the all-clear for a massive increase in investment after parliament voted to exempt defense spending from strict rules on debt. The country's top general has told the BBC that cash is urgently needed because Russian aggression won't stop at Ukraine. "We are threatened by Putin," General Carsten Breuer says. He warns that NATO should be braced for a possible attack in as little as four years.
  
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• AI Models Miss Disease in Black and Female Patients

  31-03-2025 11:20 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceFrom programs designed to detect irregular heartbeats in electrocardiograms to software that tracks eye movements to diagnose autism, artificial intelligence is helping physicians fine-tune the care they provide patients. But for all the technology's potential for automating tasks, a growing body of evidence also shows that AI can be prone to bias that disadvantages already vulnerable patients. A new study, published in Science Advances, adds to...
  
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• The death of my friend inspired me to follow my standup dreams

  30-03-2025 14:00
  
  For one writer, tragedy led to comedy, the sudden loss of a colleague giving her the nudge she neededThere’s nothing funny about your co-worker being assassinated. But it was the death of my beloved colleague and friend Hisham al-Hashimi that led me into the world of standup comedy. I knew it would trash my hard-won career in international security, but I didn’t care any more.Hisham had run a workshop with me in Iraq six months prior to his death, and I’d taken everything so se
  
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• First Therapy Chatbot Trial Suggests AI Can Provide "Gold-Standard" Care

  30-03-2025 10:10 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Science Daily - Top HealthResearchers conducted the first clinical trial of an AI-powered therapy chatbot and found that, on average, people with diagnosed mental disorders experienced clinically significant improvements in their symptoms over eight weeks, according to new results. Users engaged with the software, known as Therabot, through a smartphone app and reported that interactions were comparable to working with a mental-health professional.
  
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• Columbia University President Steps Down Amid Trump's Crackdown

  30-03-2025 10:10 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - AmericasColumbia University's interim president has resigned her role just one week after the Ivy League university agreed to change several policies to satisfy demands from the Trump administration. Katrina Armstrong had led the university since August, after the previous president resigned over her handling of protests against Israel's military operation in Gaza. Columbia has drawn ire from Donald Trump, who claims that it's been too tolerant of...
  
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• CogniHab Launches VR Mindfulness Program to Enhance Corporate Wellness

  29-03-2025 13:15 via pr.com
  CogniHab, a leader in mental wellness solutions, is excited to introduce its Virtual Reality (VR) Mindfulness Program, designed to reduce stress, enhance focus, and boost productivity in the workplace. Using immersive VR technology, this program offers a unique and engaging way for employees to practice mindfulness and improve their mental well-being.In today's fast-paced corporate environment, stress, burnout, and [PR.com]
  
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• CognHab Launches VR Mindfulness Program to Enhance Corporate Wellness

  29-03-2025 13:15 via pr.com
  
  CognHab, a leader in mental wellness solutions, is excited to introduce its Virtual Reality (VR) Mindfulness Program, designed to reduce stress, enhance focus, and boost productivity in the workplace. Using immersive VR technology, this program offers a unique and engaging way for employees to practice mindfulness and improve their mental well-being.In today's fast-paced corporate environment, stress, burnout, and [PR.com]
  
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• Ambush of Tufts Student Sparks Concern Over Immigration Crackdown

  29-03-2025 11:25 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthThe arrest of a Tufts University student by hooded Homeland Security agents in plain clothes—caught on video—is raising new questions about the Trump administration's aggressive crackdown on immigrants over the opinions they've expressed. The administration's push to detain and deport college students with pro-Palestinian views has stunned civil libertarians, who say it violates American traditions of free speech and due process under the law.
  
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