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Long Hours? Working Weekends? Here's How It's Affecting Your Mental Health

By Peter Hess on February 25, 2019 Mass media is full of the idea that work will fulfill us, and so we should chase our passion at all hours. But hustle cant replace health. New research on adults who work weekends and long hours highlights this reality, showing the crucial point that people like the folks at Fiverr an...

Diet reverses Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in lab model

The findings focused on components contained in green tea and carrots lend credence to the idea that certain readily available, plant-based supplements might offer protection against dementia in people. By Leigh Hopper , March 6, 2019 USC researchers are studying plant-derived substances, like green tea, that inhibit p...

Study suggests humor could be an emotion regulation strategy for depression

By Eric W. Dolan , March 10, 2019 (Photo credit: klublu ) Humor can help decrease negative emotional reactions in people vulnerable to depression, according to new research published in the journal Brain and Behavior . The findings offer preliminary evidence that humor could be an effective emotion regulation strategy....

Study finds that low-quality sleep can lead to procrastination, especially among people who naturally

March 03 , 2019 New research which was recently published in Frontiers in Psychology provides important insights regarding the connection between sleep quality and the tendency to procrastinate. Prior studies have shown that procrastination occurs as a result of a low capacity for self-regulation. Essentially, this mea...

Air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

12 March 2019 Air pollution could be causing double the number of excess deaths a year in Europe than has been estimated previously, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal [1] today (Tuesday). Using a new method of modelling the effects of various sources of outdoor air pollution on death rates, t...