This episode of UNC Health Talk: The Podcast is for high school graduates preparing to enter college (and their parents). Up until now, your health has largely been your parents’ responsibility. But now high school is over and it’s time for college. Even if you’re continuing your education close to home, it’s time to take…
ADD/ADHD, Children, Families, Health, Mental Health, Pediatric Medicine, Primary Care, Safety
Teaching Boys It’s OK to Cry.
Adolescent Health, Men's Health, Mental Health, Pediatric Medicine
Helping a new mother deal with or prevent postpartum depression is an important job. Here’s how you can help.
Both men and women experience depression, but men are more likely to hide it and less likely to seek help.
People suffering from serious mental illness need help, quickly.
What parents should (and shouldn’t) do when a child struggles with worry and fear.
Babies, Depression, Families, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Women's Health
These five steps to a happier 2018 are focused on you, not unrealistic expectations.
The National Institute on Aging awarded a $2.6-million, five-year grant to UNC’s Mohanish Deshmukh’s lab to explore miR-29, a key molecule that helps mature brain cells avoid death.
Can the kinds of microbes colonizing the gut at age 1 predict later cognitive development? Findings from the UNC School of Medicine shed light on the surprising role of bacteria in how our brains develop during the first years of life.
Babies, Children, Mental Health, Microbiome, News, Nutrition
A phase 2, double-blind study of the investigational medication, brexanolone, in the treatment of women with severe PPD published in The Lancet. Clinical trials are currently underway at UNC.
Brain Health, Depression, Families, Mental Health, Pregnancy, Research, Studies, Treatment, Wellness, Women's Health
In two previous studies, University of North Carolina researchers and colleagues linked infant brain anatomy differences to autism diagnoses at age two. Now they show differences in functional connections between brain regions at 6 months to predict autism at age two.
Autism, Brain Health, Children, Mental Health, News, Publications, Research, Studies
