Purpose\nPeople who experience mental illness often demonstrate limited help-seeking behaviours. There is evidence to suggest that media content can influence negative attitudes towards mental illness; less is
Depression is a chronic and debilitating mental illness with a 17% lifetime prevalence and is a major cause of morbidity, disability and mortality.1,2,3Research in this field has been dominated by the monoamine theory for over 50 years. Currently available pharmacologic treatments for depression p...
The strongest association was seen for social interaction, which is likely due to people lacking social support networks having fewer resources to play on in the face of health problems, and that lonely people are more likely to demonstrate less health-promoting behaviors [35, 36]. Looking at ...
These findings demonstrate that altered DAergic signaling can impact adult behavior as a function of developmental timing. Together, these data therefore suggest that permanent changes in aggressive behavior and stimulant sensitivity are jointly defined based on the developmental period during which mono...
When it comes to emotional contagion behavior, the fact that female rodents demonstrate more escape behaviors and less freezing than males (Gruene et al., 2015) in response to threats adds complexity to these comparisons. If a female observer shows less freezing than a male observer, it could ...
In particular, we demonstrate that childhood sexual abuse was associated more strongly with suicide attempts in young children who were not under the care of clinicians. This finding has important clinical implications in that it highlights an urgent need for incorporating suicide prevention strategies ...
The attention to workplace mental health is timely given extreme levels of burnout, anxiety, depression and trauma experienced by workers due to serious ex
Specifically, their findings demonstrated that while internalizing problems are lowest in children when higher warmth is present in both caregivers, when paternal warmth is low, children demonstrate an increase in internalizing outcomes, irrespective of high maternal warmth. These findings highlight that ...
In contrast to previous research that discusses the gender gap in sleep duration resulting from childcare responsibilities18,19, we demonstrate that the shift in social expectations about childbearing could be a potential mechanism driving differential changes in sleep patterns, particularly daytime napping...
During adolescence, eating behaviors are influenced by peer impacts, such as perceived social norms that can create unique peer pressures [2,3]. Peer-to-peer influence on health behaviors has been documented in face-to-face interactions [4]; however, few have studied the influence of social ...