Dementia after a head injury is a significant public health problem. In the United States, roughly 2 per 1,000 people each year have some kind of head injury. Many do not seek medical care.Between 400,000 and 500,000 people are hospitalized in the U.S. every year for head injury.Younger people are more likely to have a head…Read More
Source: Image by Geralt, CC0, pixabay.com. Have you ever gotten stumped by a problem, decided to take a break, and then later found that the answer magically came to you in a burst of inspiration? If so, you know the power of strategic breaks to refresh your brain and help you see a situation in a…Read More
Mental wellbeing is an integral part of our overall health. Society often thinks of health as something biological and physical: the condition of our bodies, how healthy we eat, the physical exercise we do. A key component of health is missing from this, though. It’s mental wellbeing, which encompasses our inner workings and the way…Read More
Chances are, you’re busy hustling between the 40 hours a week you need to work, the family you need to provide for, and the bills that need to be paid.As the years pass by, you’ve begun to feel the burnout from all the needs and expectations required of you. You don’t feel like you are…Read More
Some people may be starting to come to grips with the fact that social media isn’t so great for mental health. Others may think that getting on it will give them a boost—but especially depending on how you spend your time on it, you may well feel worse after using. Plenty of studies have found correlations between higher social media…Read More
Epilepsy is not a mental illness. In fact, the vast majority of people living with epilepsy have no cognitive or psychological problem. For the most part, psychological issues in epilepsy are limited to people with severe and uncontrolled epilepsy. Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability Epilepsy itself does not cause severe intellectual problems, but the two can…Read More
Barely a day goes by without concerns being raised about the effect of social media on children’s mental health. Now a study aims to delve behind the headlines to ascertain whether it has been unfairly vilified.By analysing data from a longitudinal survey of 40,000 households, researchers from Portsmouth and Sheffield universities hope to identify the…Read More
Post date 9 May 2016 Twin Design / Shutterstock.com In this blog, Brayan Herrera, a year 12 student who has been on placement with Mental Health Foundations Policy and Research team from Haggerston School, East London, as part of the Inspire Initiative, discusses the positive and negative impacts of social media on young peoples mental…Read More
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