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Test Anxiety – How to Calm Your Nerves Before a Big Test

Clear Behavioral Health

Related: What Causes Mental Illness? Cognitive Test Anxiety Test anxiety manifests cognitively with intrusive thoughts, difficulty concentrating, or severe mental blocks during the actual test-taking. This can create barriers to performing well and disrupt your day or even your ability to take the test. have GAD [2].

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

Mad in America

I was grappling with the pressures of balancing the needs of my teenagers, who were struggling in different ways, and my two preschoolers with developmental delays that no professional could explain — all while attempting to manage and overcome my own trauma from military service. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us.

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Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

Mad in America

In one final location after which we returned home a young senior resident engaged me in a conversation and we talked mental health. In one final location after which we returned home a young senior resident engaged me in a conversation and we talked mental health. She took me to three in the city, big ones.

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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care

ADDitude

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Mad in America

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse.

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New OPM-MEG brain scanner installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)

Department of Psychiatry News

A new Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM-MEG) brain scanner has been installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), based at the Department of Psychiatry. By measuring tiny magnetic fields generated by the activity of neurons in the brain the OPM-MEG scanner reveals which areas are active during specific tasks.

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

© Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish. .