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Lieber Institute awarded $1 million grant to foster racial diversity across neuroscience

The Lieber Institute for Brain Development has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support the work of the African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) to promote racial equity throughout the field of neuroscience.

28 Feb 2023

Grassroots wellbeing and suicide prevention tool launched to support Australian farmers

The University of South Australia is ensuring that mental health and wellbeing remain a top priority in rural communities as a grassroots wellbeing and suicide prevention tool is launched today to support Australian farmers.

23 Feb 2023

Exploring the benefits of urban sheep grazing

Bicycles whirr by, students rush to class, staff and faculty are grabbing lunch or coffee on the go -; and sheep graze the grassy knolls among the traffic, bleating every now and then. The grazing is their job.

22 Feb 2023

Pets help improve the mental health and wellbeing of older people

Furry, finned, or feathered, our family pets come in all shapes and sizes. But while these friendly faces keep us company at home, it's a very different story for people in aged care – many of whom must relinquish their beloved pet as a condition of entry.

21 Feb 2023

Significance of aerial root nutrient uptake in indoor plant growth

Most people own houseplants and eagerly grow them on windowsills and shelves only to be disappointed when they wilt or die - new research has shown that the problem could be that we're feeding them all wrong and we need to pay attention to the roots outside the soil.

16 Feb 2023

New ways to diagnose learning and memory disorders

By showing Welles's movie "Touch of Evil" to mice, Chinmay Purandare, PhD, and Prof. Mayank Mehta of UCLA have uncovered surprising and important new insights about how neurons form memories. The discovery points to new ways to diagnose Alzheimer's and other learning and memory impairments, while also improving artificial intelligence.

15 Feb 2023

Psychological trauma related to HIV could make it difficult to end the AIDS epidemic

Failing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult, if not impossible, to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers study.

8 Feb 2023

Exploring how smoking cannabis alters the oral microbiome and its impact on the brain

Inspiration strikes when you least expect it. For Wei Jiang, M.D., a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), inspiration came in 2018 on a smoke-filled boat tour around Amsterdam during an international conference.

30 Jan 2023

Long-term deep meditation may have a beneficial effect on gut microbiota, study suggests

Regular deep meditation, practised for several years, may help to regulate the gut microbiome and potentially lower the risks of physical and mental ill health, finds a small comparative study published in the open access journal General Psychiatry.

30 Jan 2023

New index reveals neighborhoods in the north of England have highest risk of food insecurity

A new index developed by researchers at the University of Southampton reveals neighborhoods in the north of England have the highest risk of food insecurity.

13 Dec 2022

Exploring behavioral variation in a non-captive animal population

For the first time, researchers demonstrate that monkeys with a more social nature—those that groom or are groomed more frequently and with more grooming partners—have a better gut microbiome.

15 Nov 2022

Research sheds light into how a person's daily rhythm and activity levels relate to intelligence

Night owls may be looking forward to falling back into autumn standard time but a new study from the University of Ottawa has found Daylight Saving Time may also suit morning types just fine.

7 Nov 2022

Urban Mind app shows direct link between seeing or hearing birds and positive mood

New research from King's College London has found that seeing or hearing birds is associated with an improvement in mental wellbeing that can last up to eight hours.

28 Oct 2022

Many proteins share important roles in the formation and function of synapses, study finds

Not just three, but even five proteins share important roles in the formation and function of synapses and can substitute for each other. This discovery was made by a team of the research focus "Mental Health & Neuroscience" of the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences Krems (KL Krems) and the CavX PhD program of the Medical University of Innsbruck.

26 Oct 2022

Harsh parenting leads to depression later in life

Strict parenting can influence how the body reads the children’s DNA. These modifications can become “hard-wired” into the DNA of kids who consider their parents to be harsh, enhancing their biological risk for depression in adolescence and later life.

20 Oct 2022

Microbiome manipulation to prevent and cure diseases

Tagbo Niepa, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, is inspired by this possibility in his research. His work on using the microbiome to enhance human health was recognized with a $2 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health, which funds “exceptionally creative scientists proposing high-risk, high-impact research.”

From University of Pittsburgh 5 Oct 2022

Mental Health News and Research

Lieber Institute awarded $1 million grant to foster racial diversity across neuroscience

Grassroots wellbeing and suicide prevention tool launched to support Australian farmers

Exploring the benefits of urban sheep grazing

Pets help improve the mental health and wellbeing of older people

Significance of aerial root nutrient uptake in indoor plant growth

New ways to diagnose learning and memory disorders

Psychological trauma related to HIV could make it difficult to end the AIDS epidemic

Exploring how smoking cannabis alters the oral microbiome and its impact on the brain

Long-term deep meditation may have a beneficial effect on gut microbiota, study suggests

New index reveals neighborhoods in the north of England have highest risk of food insecurity

Exploring behavioral variation in a non-captive animal population

Research sheds light into how a person's daily rhythm and activity levels relate to intelligence

Urban Mind app shows direct link between seeing or hearing birds and positive mood

Many proteins share important roles in the formation and function of synapses, study finds

Harsh parenting leads to depression later in life

Microbiome manipulation to prevent and cure diseases

The deep relationship between Tob gene and common mental health conditions

Microbes in the human gut impact neurological and emotional health

An inventory of human genetic variation through upgrading the 1000 genomes project resource

Researchers identify how nonmaterial contributions from nature affect human well-being

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