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Study Finds Childhood Punishment May Fuel Aggression Later In Life
A discipline method used by families across the world may have consequences that last far beyond the moment a child is punished. Research summarized by the World Health Organization links corporal punishment with increased aggression, behavioural problems and a greater likelihood of using violence later in life. The scale is difficult to ignore. Around 1.2…
A 16-Year ADHD Study Just Turned One Major Assumption On Its Head
For years, researchers had a straightforward expectation about ADHD: as life becomes more demanding, managing the condition should become harder. A new study that followed people with ADHD for 16 years found something that went in the opposite direction. Researchers tracked 483 people diagnosed with ADHD during childhood, and their symptoms did not simply remain…
Scientists Warn Modern Life May Be Overloading The Human Brain
The train doors close and within seconds, phones appear across the carriage. One commuter checks a message, another scrolls through a video, someone reads a breaking-news alert while another watches a stranger’s carefully edited holiday unfold on a screen. In the space of a single journey, the human brain can be exposed to war, celebrity…
Meta Faces Nearly $1 Billion Penalty After Landmark Child Safety Ruling
Meta has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion after a New Mexico judge found that Facebook and Instagram contributed to serious harms affecting children and teenagers. The ruling goes beyond a financial penalty. Meta has also been ordered to change how its platforms operate for younger users, putting some of the biggest social media…
The Happiness Researcher Who Started Crossing Things Off His Bucket List
Arthur Brooks had spent years doing what most people are told will make them happy. By 50, the happiness researcher had worked through a bucket list he had written at 40, checking off every goal he once believed would make his life feel complete. The strange part came afterward. Instead of feeling satisfied, Brooks realized…
Reading May Be The Simplest Brain Workout You Already Own
For years, the hunt for better brain power has produced a parade of complicated answers. Supplements, apps, puzzles, productivity systems and increasingly elaborate routines have all promised to keep the mind sharp. But one of the strongest candidates may already be sitting on a bookshelf. Research into what happens inside the brain when people learn…
Scientists Found Biological Traces Of Parental Trauma In Children
The babies were too young to understand what happened in New York on September 11, 2001. Yet researchers found that their bodies appeared to carry traces of what their mothers had experienced. The clue was not in their memories or behavior. It was in their saliva, their stress hormones, and eventually in the way scientists…
Psychologist Says the Male Loneliness Epidemic May Be Rooted in Emotional Intelligence
Think about your phone for a second. Hundreds of contacts, probably. Group chats you haven’t opened in months. Now ask yourself honestly: is there one person in there you’d actually call at 2 a.m. if something in your life fell apart? For a lot of men, the answer is no — and that, in a…
Study Finds Dancing May Be More Effective Than Medication for Depression
For millions of people living with depression, getting through an ordinary day can feel like a battle nobody else can see. Laura Hogzett knows that feeling personally. She is a licensed professional counselor who understood the language of mental health, yet she still found herself isolating, withdrawing from people, and slipping further into a place…
Gen X Psychiatrist Says We Don’t Miss the ’80s. We Miss These 6 Parts of Everyday Life
Nostalgia has a way of smoothing over the rough edges of the past. The longer the years pass, the easier it becomes to remember iconic movie nights, packed shopping malls, cassette mixtapes, and afternoons spent outside while forgetting the inconveniences, social problems, and limitations that came with the era. That is why conversations about the…