Back-to-School Anxiety: Tips for Kids and Parents
It’s normal to feel nervous, but these five strategies can help.
Anxiety, Mental Health, School-Age Children
Tag: Psychiatry
Pignone featured by U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
UNC's Dr. Michael Pignone is featured in two videos, a press release and a podcast discussing the Task Force's recommendation that clinicians should screen all adults, including pregnant women and new mothers, for depression.
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Study Finds Surprising Links Between Bullying and Eating Disorders
According to new research from Duke and UNC, both victims of bullying and the bullies themselves could be at risk psychologically for anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Nutrition
Popular electric brain stimulation method detrimental to IQ scores
In a double-blinded, randomized study, UNC researchers found that the IQ scores of people who underwent tDCS brain stimulation improved markedly less than did the IQ scores of people in the placebo group.
Neurology, Research, Treatment
Scientists use brain stimulation to boost creativity, set stage to ...
Using a weak electric current to alter a specific brain activity pattern, UNC School of Medicine researchers increased creativity in healthy adults. Now they’re testing the same experimental protocol to alleviate symptoms in people with depression.
Mental Health, Neurology, Research, Treatment
Women who experience postpartum depression symptoms before giving b...
Postpartum depression (PPD) may have a diverse clinical presentation and this has critical implications for diagnosis, treatment and understanding the underlying biology of the illness, a new study finds.
Mental Health, Pregnancy and Maternal Health, Studies