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Hoarding
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Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress
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The emotional toll of caring for research animals
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Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be
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Narcissistic Collapse
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Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
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Museums on prescription: Brussels tests cultural visits to treat anxiety
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Finding the biological roots for pathological social withdrawal, Hikikomori
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TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)
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The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence
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Historical language records show surge of cognitive distortion in recent decades
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Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children
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Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (2015)
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Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
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“Multiple personality disorder” probably doesn't exist
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Stress hormone reduces altruistic behavior in empathetic people
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Altruism under stress: cortisol negatively predicts charitable giving
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The Autism Phenome Project: Toward Identifying Meaningful Subgroups of Autism
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People behave more sadistically when they’re bored
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Psychogenic death, the phenomenon of “thinking” yourself to death
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The Righteousness Fix
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Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness
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Retired Husband Syndrome
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Many young people diagnosed with Tourette’s after watching a YouTube channel
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Robert Sapolsky on Depression (2009)
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Chronically lonely flies overeat and lose sleep
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Perceptual distortions in late-teens predict psychotic symptoms in mid-life
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Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades
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Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems from psychological issues
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Burnout from an Organizational Perspective
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Weary of Work
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High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders
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Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
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Avoid Contentious Terms
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We’ve Got Depression All Wrong. It’s Trying to Save Us
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Eyes hint at hidden mental-health conditions (2019)
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Burnout can exacerbate work stress, further promoting a vicious circle
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On Being Bipolar
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Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (2010)
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Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
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Elevated rates of autism in transgender and gender-diverse individuals
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Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states
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‘Excited delirium’, used by police to justify brutality, is junk science
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Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress
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The links between mental disorders
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Decision fatigue
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Boredom is but a window to a sunny day beyond the gloom
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How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white
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The Autism History Project
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Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score
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The Body Keeps the Score: Book Summary
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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
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Terror management theory
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Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017)
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Anxiety Looks Different in Men
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People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (2017)
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Childhood Adversity Linked to Earlier Puberty, Premature Brain Development
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A Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (2013)
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Burnout is an official medical diagnosis, WHO says
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The APA Meeting: A Photo-Essay
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Depression-Gene Studies Were Built on Shaky Foundations
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
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Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
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Death metal music inspires joy not violence
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Against Willpower (2017)
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I Left a Buddhist Retreat in Handcuffs
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Should Mental Disorders Have Names?
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If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed
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Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like
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What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?
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Depression
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Post-traumatic stress disorder may mimic autism in some children
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Dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction
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Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal
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Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder?
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When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill?
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People can die from giving up the fight
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The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death
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‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization
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Psychopathy to Altruism: Neurobiology of the Selfish–Selfless Spectrum
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The myth of ‘mad’ genius
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Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath (2014)
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Long Term Depression Permanently Changes the Brain
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Signatures of positive selection in autism spectrum disorder genes
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Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? (2017)
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Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
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Calling for a new approach to depression
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Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
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Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis (2016)
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Toward a Predictive Theory of Depression
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Increased acidity found in schizophrenia and bipolar patients’ brains
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The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous (2015)
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The Grim Biology of Being Poor
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Tears
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Losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
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Against Willpower
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Brain activity 'key in stress link to heart disease'
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Low social status 'can damage immune system'
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How Anxiety Warps Your Perception
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Motivational Incongruence and Well-Being at the Workplace
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How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol
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Why do so few humans kill themselves?
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The downside of being happy: creativity kindled by sadness
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How Trees Calm Us Down
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Crying
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On the Nature of Creepiness [pdf]
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Beautiful minds, wasted: how not to squander the potential of autistic people
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How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm
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Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
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Research into ketamine as a treatment for severe depression
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Why boredom is anything but boring
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Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness (2013)
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Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People
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How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains
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The Relationship Between Intelligence and Anxiety
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Autism in Women Is Misunderstood
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Depression-Fighting SAD Lamps Aren't Just for Your Winter Blues
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A neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease
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Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones
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Individuals with social phobia have too much serotonin
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What Poverty Does to the Young Brain
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Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative
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What Heroin Addiction Tells Us About Changing Bad Habits
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Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of inflammation
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Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore
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Toxo, the cysts in our brains from cats, can improve self-control (2013)
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Schizophrenia not a single disease but multiple genetically distinct disorders
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The physiological effects of Shinrin-yoku
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When It's Bad to Have Good Choices
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The Relationship Between Creativity and Mental Illness
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What Killed My Sister?
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Almost half of homeless men had traumatic brain injury in their lifetime
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Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism'
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The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
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Rat Park Experiment: A New Theory of Addiction
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Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Potential (2012)
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Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
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Successful and Schizophrenic
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Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself
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Mass Shootings, Political Correctness, and Magical Thinking
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Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
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Training in 'concrete thinking' can be self-help treatment for depression
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The Willpower Paradox
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A Neuroscientist Uncovers A Dark Secret
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Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'
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Psychopaths among us
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Sad clown paradox
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Magicians less prone to mental disorders than other artists, finds research
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Kids with cats have double the risk of developing schizophrenia
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Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
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Ketogenic Diet Intervention on Metabolic and Psychiatric Health
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Childhood Loneliness Linked to Later Psychosis
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Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet?
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Cats appear to grieve death of fellow pets – even dogs, study finds
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Gear Acquisition Syndrome
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We've Got Depression All Wrong. It's Trying to Save Us
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Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
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For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful
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