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A grisly trend has emerged: users who create AI partners, act abusive toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.

Artificial Intelligence

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them

By Ashley Bardhan

How to Respond to Omicron Like a Rational, Smart, Non-Hysterical Adult

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How to Respond to Omicron Like a Rational, Smart, Non-Hysterical Adult

By Noor Al-Sibai

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Get Focused This Cyber Week With A Lifetime Of WiredVibe

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A brain implant that zaps a woman's brain 300 times per day treated her severe depression after medications failed for years.

Depressed Woman Gets Brain Implant, Says It Caused “Most Intensely Joyous Sensation”

By Dan Robitzski

As astronauts venture farther and farther into space, they may need a little pick-me-up in the form of psilocybin when they start to feel lonely.

Scientist Says Astronauts Should Take Psychedelic Mushrooms in Space

By Dan Robitzski

A massive, alarming new study just found a strong correlation between heavy marijuana use and the onset of schizophrenia.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Claim That More and More Schizophrenia Cases Are Linked to Marijuana

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found an alarming correlation between heavy cannabis use and suicidal thoughts or actions among teens and young adults.

Health & Medicine

Cannabis Use Linked to Suicide Attempts in Young Adults

By Dan Robitzski

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction

Health & Medicine

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC released a study on Friday indicating that attempted suicides amongst teenaged girls rose sharply during the pandemic.

CDC Study: Teen Suicide Attempts Spiked During the Pandemic

By Tony Ho Tran

A brain implant that delivers imperceptible, personalized electric shocks is successfully treating a woman with severe depression.

Study: Wake Up an Hour Earlier, Cut Your Depression Risk by 23 Percent

By Foster Kamer

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests there may be a link between social media use and depression, NPR reports. Facebook disagrees.

Scientists Say There’s a Clear Link Between Facebook and Depression

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a blood test for clinical depression that they say will make diagnoses and treatments far more specific.

Health & Medicine

New Test Detects Depression in Blood Samples

By Dan Robitzski

Roughly one in three coronavirus patients are diagnosed with some sort of neurological or psychological condition within six months, according to a study.

A Third of COVID Patients Are Diagnosed With “Brain Disease”

By Dan Robitzski

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.

Study: Social Media Turns Us Into Hungry Rats Basically

By Tony Ho Tran

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.

Study: “Zoom Fatigue” Exists—and It Totally Sucks

By Tony Ho Tran

As the pandemic rages on, the mental health and wellbeing of young adults and children is suffering to an alarming degree.

The Pandemic Has Shattered Young People’s Mental Health

By Dan Robitzski

Yet another study suggests there's a strong condition between COVID-19 and a variety of psychiatric and neurological conditions.

Health & Medicine

More Evidence Links COVID to Mental Illness, Neurological Disease

By Dan Robitzski

Disturbing footage shows a man in excruciating pain crawling out of a hospital after medical staff dismissed his pain as imaginary.

Health & Medicine

Video Shows Agonized Man Crawling Out of Hospital

By Dan Robitzski

More and more people were binge drinking more often in mid-April than they were in mid-March, thanks specifically to the pandemic.

Binge Drinking Got Way Worse During the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that as many as 80 percent of young adults in America could be facing serious mental health issues due to the pandemic.

Health & Medicine

Survey: 80% of American Young Adults Depressed During Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study by researchers at Oxford, 20 percent of those previously infected with the coronavirus develop a mental illness within 90 days.

Health & Medicine

Oxford Research: 18% of COVID Patients Develop Mental Illness Within Months

By Victor Tangermann

$In case it didn't cause enough problems, fracking can also be devastating for the mental health of people who live nearby.$

Sociologist: Fracking is a Mental Health Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

A former YouTube content moderator just sued over psychological trauma induced by being overworked and undersupported while flagging graphic videos.

YouTube Content Moderator Sues Over Psychological Trauma

By Dan Robitzski

As colleges and universities open their doors, it's becoming clear that they are not prepared to offer mental healthcare to everyone who will need it.

The Mental Healthcare Crisis Coming to American Universities

By Dan Robitzski

Videos of police violence are important for holding the powerful accountable, but they're linked to PTSD and depression symptoms in Black and Latinx teens.

Health & Medicine

Police Brutality Videos Are Giving Teens PTSD Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, mindfulness and meditation can make depression and anxiety worse in a small subset of people who try it.

Health & Medicine

Serenity Not Now: Meditation and Mindfulness Can Make Depression Worse

By Dan Robitzski

The US is going through a massive mental health crisis, according to a CDC study. Minority groups, caregivers, and essential workers are hit hardest.

Health & Medicine

CDC: Over 25% of Young Americans Considered Suicide Due to the Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists who identified a link between naturally-present lithium in drinking water and lower suicide rates suggest lacing communities' water supply.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Propose Adding Psychoactive Drug to our Water Supplies

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that fans of horror movies and those with a natural morbid curiosity may have been better psychologically prepared for the pandemic.

Health & Medicine

Study: Horror Movie Fans Were Better Prepared For the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

As the U.S. coronavirus outbreak surges upward again, health experts warn that we may feel even more psychologically devastated than the first time around.

Health & Medicine

Researcher: Second COVID Wave May Be Psychologically Devastating

By Dan Robitzski

A team of experts called current social distancing measures the "biggest challenge" humanity faces because of the natural instinct to come together.

Health & Medicine

Experts: Social Distancing Is “Biggest Challenge” Humanity Faces

By Dan Robitzski

For some unknown reason, people who were born blind don't develop schizophrenia, and scientists have differing ideas as to why.

Health & Medicine

People Born Blind Don’t Develop Schizophrenia, Baffling Doctors

By Dan Robitzski

After a week away from Facebook, undergrads felt better and made healthier choices. But they were also eager to sign on again.

A Week Break From Facebook Can Make You Less Depressed

By Dan Robitzski

An increasing number of children in the UK are being treated by healthcare professionals for "eco-anxiety," a growing sense of fear over climate change.

Health & Medicine

Shrinks Are Treating Climate-Traumatized Kids For “Eco-Anxiety”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists determined which personality traits and other factors are most closely associated with internet gaming disorder.

Health & Medicine

Neurotic, Introverted Men Have a Higher Risk of Gaming Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

The forced-swim test used to detect depression in lab animals may be on the way out, as both scientists and animal rights activists rally against its use.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Are Reconsidering an Incredibly Cruel Animal Experiment

By Kristin Houser

Students in Oregon can now miss school for "mental health days," making the state one of the first to offer excused absenses for mental illness.

New Law Lets Students Miss School For “Mental Health Days”

By Kristin Houser

A UK college has launched the Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research — the world's first formal center for research into psychedelics.

Health & Medicine

World’s First Center for Psychedelics Research Opens in UK

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese prison's new surveillance system will monitor inmates constantly to prevent escape attempts — but perhaps at the cost of prisoners' mental health.

Artificial Intelligence

China Is Installing “AI Guards” in Prison Cells

By Kristin Houser

Amazon employees are experiencing mental health breakdowns due to warehouse working conditions, according to a Daily Beast report.

911 Calls Reveal Mental Anguish of Amazon Employees

By Kristin Houser

New research shows that dosages of the drug DMT that are too low to cause hallucinations could indeed reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Health & Medicine

New Study: Microdosing DMT Reduces Depression and Anxiety

By Jon Christian

On Friday, two former Facebook content moderators signed on to a lawsuit, alleging that they also suffered from symptoms of PTSD.

Former Content Moderators Are Suing Facebook Over PTSD and Trauma

By Victor Tangermann

A new study finds a link between the amount of green space surrounding a person's childhood home and their mental health as an adult.

Study: Growing up Around Green Space Halves Mental Health Risk

By Kristin Houser

Facebook's content moderators work under grueling conditions and are often traumatized by the videos they have to watch and remove.

Facebook Mods Are so Traumatized They’re Getting High at Work

By Dan Robitzski

Clearing Old Cells from Mouse Brains Lowered Signs of Anxiety

Clearing Old Cells from Mouse Brains Lowered Signs of Anxiety

By Dan Robitzski

What Astronauts’ Tweets Could Tell Scientists About the Psychology of Space Travel

What Astronauts’ Tweets Could Tell Scientists About the Psychology of Space Travel

By Jon Christian

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found a way to predict if a person was going to be depressed by analyzing their Facebook data.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Can Tell if You’re Depressed by Reading Your Facebook Posts

By Victor Tangermann

A team of European researchers is exploring how internet usage affects mental health, marking the first international effort to do so.

We’ll Soon Know Exactly How Terrible the Internet Is for Our Mental Health

By Kristin Houser

Mindstrong says its app can analyze your typing and scrolling to find signs of depression and anxiety. But it hasn't shared much data to support that.

Health & Medicine

This Startup Says Its App Can Detect Signs of Depression and Anxiety. Experts Aren’t Sure.

By Jon Christian

By labeling edited social media photos as edited, we could decrease thin ideal internalization, the belief that a woman would be better if she were thinner.

Labelling Edited Selfies on Social Media Might Make Us Less Miserable

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: VR Treatment, Even Without a Therapist, Helps People Overcome Fear of Heights

The Digest: VR Treatment, Even Without a Therapist, Helps People Overcome Fear of Heights

By Kristin Houser

A Scottish Clinic Will Now Treat “Cryptocurrency Addiction”

A Scottish Clinic Will Now Treat “Cryptocurrency Addiction”

By Dan Robitzski

Surprise! Reddit Is Actually Helping People Battle Mental Illness

Health & Medicine

Surprise! Reddit Is Actually Helping People Battle Mental Illness

By Kristin Houser

Surprise! Quitting Facebook Could Be Bad for You.

Surprise! Quitting Facebook Could Be Bad for You.

By Kristin Houser

Instagram is Trying to Make Users Feel Better Without Scaring Them Off

Instagram is Trying to Make Users Feel Better Without Scaring Them Off

By Claudia Geib

Diet to Reduce Blood Pressure May Help Combat Depression

Health & Medicine

Diet to Reduce Blood Pressure May Help Combat Depression

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

IBM’s New AI Can Predict Psychosis in Your Speech

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New App for Depression Uses Artificial Intelligence for Therapy Treatments

The World Health Organization Identifies Gaming Disorder as a Mental Health Condition

The World Health Organization Identifies Gaming Disorder as a Mental Health Condition

By Aylin Woodward

Intrusive Thoughts Might Be Caused By a Shortage of a Certain Chemical

Health & Medicine

Intrusive Thoughts Might Be Caused By a Shortage of a Certain Chemical

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning Is Aiding in the Fight Against Mental Illness

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DARPA’s New Brain Device Increases Learning Speed by 40%

Magic Mushrooms “Reset” Key Brain Circuits in Depressed People

Magic Mushrooms “Reset” Key Brain Circuits in Depressed People

Scientists Just Used Brain Stimulation to Literally Change How People Think

Scientists Just Used Brain Stimulation to Literally Change How People Think