Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness Confirmed in Large-Scale Swedish Study

People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose large-scale Swedish registry study is the most comprehensive...

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Link Between Multiple Media Use And Depression, Anxiety

Using multiple forms of media at the same time - such as playing a computer game while watching TV - is linked to symptoms of anxiety and depression, scientists have found for the first time.Michigan State University's Mark Becker, lead investigator on the study, said he was surprised to find such...

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Risk Genes In Bipolar Disorder

One of the biggest challenges in psychiatric genetics has been to replicate findings across large studies.Scientists at King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry have now performed one of the largest ever genetic replication studies of bipolar affective disorder, with 28,000 subjects recruited...

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mental health issues

You might think that mental health issues are fairly rare in modern American society, but far more of us are self medicating than you might imagine – and mental health issues are far more prevalent than one might at first suspect. This infographic shines a light on the facts, breaking down the numbers...

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