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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

Mad in America

With convenience right at our fingertips, it seems paradoxical that, despite our relative prosperity, we suffer some of the highest rates of mental illness compared to any other part of the world, with more than 1 in 5 US adults living with mental illness. when agriculture began and modern civilization developed.

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Teenage years crucial for depression intervention

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

The findings highlight the importance of targeting depression at an early age, when symptoms are still changing, experts say. Symptom patterns become more stable across adolescence, with individuals more likely to be persistently depressed or experience no depressive symptoms, while symptoms fluctuate at younger ages. Whalley, Alex S.

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Non-inherited genes affect children's development

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Science News from research organizations Non-inherited genes affect childrens development Date: May 7, 2025 Source: University College London Summary: Parents genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report. non-cognitive skills).

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Why People See Their Pets as Family Members

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Men and women across all age groups fed, protected, and emotionally supported kids, not just their own, she said. However, as societies shifted, initially through agriculture, then through the industrial revolution, the ways of life also shifted. Extended family networks disappeared, while families chose to have fewer children.

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We Are Amidst the Age of Behavioral Alchemy

Mad in America

I’m going to introduce to you a new definition of mental health and, in doing so, am going to show that this group is more mentally healthy, for which we should be very concerned. THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities.