Healthcare News
Prior poor mental health is associated with higher COVID-19 infection rates
At the height of the pandemic, news and policy media focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic was contributing to poor mental health, a hypothesis confirmed by several studies. However, few studies examined whether the reverse might be true, that prior poor mental health may be associated with higher rates of COVID-19 infection.
COVID-19 anxiety syndrome still causing one in five to struggle with return to normal living
A new survey by Kingston University in collaboration with London South Bank University (LSBU) has found that Covid-19 Anxiety Syndrome is still causing many people to struggle with reintegration into daily life.
Why uncertainty makes us change our behavioreven when we shouldn`t
People around the world dramatically changed their shopping behaviours at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When stressed, people are quicker to jump to the worst conclusion
When feeling stressed people are more likely to jump to more undesirable conclusions based on little evidence, a new study concludes.
Scientists tie improved learning processes to reduced symptoms of depression
Virginia Tech scientists with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have identified neural learning processes to be associated with symptoms of depression and linked improvements in these processes to improved symptoms in research participants being treated for depression.
