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In a new study, researchers looked at health records from 260 outpatient clinics and four hospitals across New York City between March 3 and May 31, 2020, looking for correlations between existing conditions of the mind, including schizophrenia, mood disorders and anxiety. They were able to rule out mood disorders and anxiety, however, they found […]
ORLANDO, Fla., April 6 (UPI) — U.S. farmers have destroyed millions of pounds of perishable food like tomatoes, lettuce and green beans because growers lost a vast number of customers after the coronavirus pandemic struck. “It’s a catastrophe, it really is,” Tony DiMare, a long-time tomato grower based in Palm Beach County, Florida, told UPI. […]
According to a new article by Holly White for Scientific American, “Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may bring with it an advantage: the ability to think more creatively. “Three aspects of creative cognition are divergent thinking, conceptual expansion and overcoming knowledge constraints. Divergent thinking, or the ability to think of many ideas from a single starting point, […]
An economic analyst who predicted the 2008 financial collapse has spent tens of thousands of dollars stockpiling food as “an insurance policy against chaos” should the coronavirus outbreak cause a global economic collapse, according to Paul Joseph Watson for Summit News. “My immediate concern is not so much getting coronavirus, it’s more so economic collapse […]
According to a new article in Bloomberg, “the first companies developing medical treatments from psychedelic drugs like LSD, ketamine and the active ingredient in magic mushrooms are gearing up to list on Canadian stock exchanges.” “Mind Medicine Inc., which is undertaking clinical trials of psychedelic-based drugs,” said Kristine Owram for Bloomberg, “intends to list on […]
An article on Vice said that “in 2018, a study led by a researcher named Vera Morgan at the University of Western Australia looked at nearly half a million children born between 1980 and 2001,” and none of the kids studied who were blind from birth ever developed schizophrenia. “Pollak, a psychiatrist and researcher at […]
“Being a professional writer, I sometimes have trouble justifying taking the time to hike in the middle of my workday,” Jill Suttie told Greater Good Magazine. “But research suggests that hiking doesn’t just feel good, it might also keep my brain in top shape.” “The experience of hiking is unique, research suggests, conveying benefits beyond […]
“An emerging body of research is suggesting that soaring 35,000 feet (10 kilometers) above the ground inside a sealed metal tube can do strange things to our minds, altering our mood, changing how our senses work and even making us itch more,” according to Richard Gray for BBC Future. Frequent fliers may have found themselves […]
“It’s been nearly four decades since modern homelessness worked its way into our collective awareness. Unlike the Civil War or the Great Depression that caused massive waves of ‘itinerant poor,’ the rise in homelessness in the 1980s was borne of social politics and global economics. And in just 40 years, it has reached crisis proportions,” […]