Category: Studies
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Web Addiction and Depression
Read more: Web Addiction and DepressionWebMD: Internet Overuse May Cause Depression. Researchers say that their work suggests that teens who use the Internet pathologically may be about 2.5 times more likely to develop depression than teens who are not addicted to the Internet.
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The Search for the Stress Vaccine
Read more: The Search for the Stress VaccineWired: Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine. The list of ailments connected to stress is staggeringly diverse and includes everything from the common cold and lower-back pain to Alzheimer’s disease, major depressive disorder, and heart attack. Stress hollows out our bones and atrophies our muscles. It triggers adult-onset diabetes and is a leading cause…
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Unreality TV
Read more: Unreality TVScienceDaily: Reality TV, cosmetic surgey linked, says researcher. Research suggests that teens fond of reality TV programs are more likely to join the millions who go under the knife each year…
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American Family
Read more: American FamilyNYT: Family Relations: An International Comparison It’s not just you. Compared with elderly parents and adult children in five other industrialized nations, Americans are twice as likely to have “disharmonious” relationships, a new multinational study has found. And we’re correspondingly less likely to have “amicable” relationships marked by strong affection and relatively free of conflict.
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Mental Health, CA
Read more: Mental Health, CAIn never rains in California, but… In a comprehensive new study of mental health status and the use of mental health services by Californians, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that nearly one in five adults in the state — about 4.9 million people — said they needed help for a mental…