4+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1017+ words) A review of 57 studies reveals why music can ease pain, with personal choice, enjoyment, and active participation emerging as important factors. People put on music when something hurts, usually on the theory that it pulls attention away from the pain....

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (981+ words) Digestive problems including constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain, and IBS are more common in people diagnosed with ADHD. An ADHD appointment covers attention, impulses, and how school or work is going. Digestion rarely comes up. But constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain, and…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1013+ words) Psychiatrists given the same cases agreed on a diagnosis only 55% of the time, revealing striking differences in how symptoms are interpreted. A psychiatric diagnosis can shape treatment, communication among doctors, and expectations about a person’s condition. For that system to…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (943+ words) Household work goes far beyond chores, and differences in how couples see their contributions are linked to relationship quality. Running a home takes more than cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes. Someone also has to remember appointments, plan shopping, manage schedules,…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1037+ words) Nature-based social prescribing eased loneliness in a Barcelona trial, but only the loneliest participants needed the nine-week group. In parts of Europe, a doctor can now hand a lonely patient a referral to a gardening club or a walking group…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1237+ words) Oregon psilocybin services enrolled 346 adults for three months, and their depression, anxiety and PTSD scores fell steeply and stayed down. In Oregon, any adult 21 or older can book a supervised psilocybin session at a licensed service center. The client pays…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (951+ words) Young adults who feel emotionally supported on social media have fewer anxiety symptoms. This effect ran twice as strong in women. A survey of 2,403 Americans aged 18 to 30 found that those who felt emotionally supported on social media reported fewer anxiety…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1126+ words) Two groups of brainstem cells build sleep drive in mice, and damping them cut sleep by nearly 70% without the usual damage. Push through a long enough day and the urge to sleep stops being a choice. That pressure builds the…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1089+ words) Beliefs about aging predicted how many hours adults later spent with family and friends, and a busy social life predicted nothing. People often assume that a busy social life leads to a more positive view of growing older. New research…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1019+ words) Psilocybin changes how brain activity is organized, revealing patterns linked to a person’s surroundings and subjective experience. People describe a psychedelic trip as everything coming apart. For a decade, neuroscientists have described it the same way. A new study reports…...