Reading for pleasure during childhood may lead to higher brain/ cognitive development and mental well-being during adolescence

By The Conversation | July 19, 2023 |

Ear­ly child­hood is a crit­i­cal peri­od for brain devel­op­ment, which is impor­tant for boost­ing cog­ni­tion and men­tal well­be­ing. Good brain health at this age is direct­ly linked to bet­ter men­tal heath, cog­ni­tion and edu­ca­tion­al attain­ment in ado­les­cence and adult­hood. It can also pro­vide resilience in times of stress. But, sad­ly, brain devel­op­ment can be hampered…

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Study on the “ABCs of Mental Health” finds that simply believing you can improve mental wellbeing helps actually improve it

By The Conversation | May 12, 2022

The num­ber of peo­ple strug­gling with poor men­tal health and men­tal dis­or­ders has been ris­ing around the world over the past few decades. Those who are strug­gling are increas­ing­ly fac­ing dif­fi­cul­ties access­ing the kind of sup­port they need – leav­ing many wait­ing months for help, if they even qual­i­fy for treat­ment. While it’s clear that…

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Study finds ultimate hack to protect teen brains from harmful screen time: Exercise (and good role-modeling)

By Greater Good Science Center | October 27, 2021

Recent­ly, the Wall Street Jour­nal ran an arti­cle about how Insta­gram was affect­ing teen men­tal health. In par­tic­u­lar, some inter­nal stud­ies at Face­book (which owns Insta­gram) appeared to con­firm that when teen girls used the site, they suf­fered poor­er body image and were at increased risk for depres­sion and eat­ing dis­or­ders. But is social media…

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Study: Higher mental wellbeing (in 2016) seen to lower healthcare costs (in 2017)

By The Conversation | May 7, 2021

There are many rea­sons why men­tal well­be­ing is impor­tant. Not only is it pro­tec­tive against phys­i­cal ill­ness­es and linked to greater pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, but the men­tal well­be­ing of a pop­u­la­tion is essen­tial for a country’s sus­tain­abil­i­ty, long-term growth and devel­op­ment. But despite the clear ben­e­fits, gov­ern­ments tend to focus pub­lic spend­ing on treat­ing and pre­vent­ing disease,…

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Tuesday April 28th, online: Explore strategies and tools to boost mental wellbeing during (and after) Covid-19

By SharpBrains | April 23, 2020

Heads-up about a very time­ly vir­tu­al event next week. When: Tues­day, April 28th, 9am — 6pm US Pacif­ic Time (San Fran­cis­co time zone) Where: Online What: Find Well­be­ing Dur­ing Covid19 — Dis­cov­er 200+ Free and Dis­count­ed Tools to help you find some relief and emerge even stronger How: Learn More and Reg­is­ter HERE Con­firmed Speak­ers include:

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