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How smartphones are revolutionising healthcare

There is no standard definition of mHealth or mobile health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mHealth is a medical and publicSee more

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AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare

WEBIn generative design, AI comes up with prototypes that satisfy basic requirements for weight, material costs, structural integrity, and other variables. Source. In medicine, the AI “tests for” a different variable: the ability to treat a symptom or known condition. Generative design in healthcare involves using neural networks for the task

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Creating Connections Investing in Healthy Relationships

WEBPrioritise ‘we’ time as well as ‘me’ time, whether that is meeting up with a group or an individual, we need to invest in our relationships. Changing the narrative. Investing in close relationships is investing in your overall health, it’s not slacking off or an optional add-on for when you have the time.

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What Social Anxiety Actually Looks and Feels Like

WEBPhysical, emotional and behavioral symptoms all accompany social anxiety. In situations that trigger an anxiety response, individuals may experience physical symptoms such as trembling, blushing, increased heart rate, difficulty breathing, dizziness and nausea. Sometimes simply imagining a stressful situation is enough to make …

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10 Surprising Facts about Alzheimer’s

WEB6. The economic cost of Alzheimer’s is astronomical—and growing. In Ireland, which has more than 27,000 private and public residential care beds, a 2012 report by the Department of Health and Children stated that Ireland spends over €1.69 billion a year on dementia, which is a major increase from the last decade.

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Are Online Games Becoming an Integral Part of Mental Health

WEBGaming is beneficial to mental health in several key areas of cognition, socialising, memory and problem-solving. All areas of wellbeing can be improved through the application of these skills that are improved via online gaming. Featured Image Source. Video and computer games have in the past suffered a poor reputation in terms of …

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Mind your Mind The importance of Self-Compassion

WEBThe relationship is a strong one with self-compassion explaining one-third to one-half of the variation in how anxious or depressed people are. Self-compassion is a major protective factor for anxiety and depression. Greater self-compassion is also linked with less rumination, stress, perfectionism, and fear of failure.

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10 Surprisingly Healthy Benefits of Gaming

WEBEnhance Brain Flexibility. Brain flexibility covers a host of functions. Video games are designed to challenge your brain on multiple levels, to stay challenging and entertaining. Playing brain-training, role-playing, or action-adventure games will keep your brain working. Switching back and forth between right and left brain, between the

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Minority Groups and Mental Health The Troubling Statistics

WEBNicole Eberhart, the behavioral scientist at Rand Corp who was leading the study, found that mental health problems were the cause of 12 percent of blacks missing four days or more of work every year, versus 6.1 percent of Asians, 7.9 percent for whites and 9.4 percent for Latinos. The fact that blacks and Latinos are so much more likely to

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Is Gaming Therapy A Viable Treatment For Mental Illness

WEBGaming has shown promise in reducing stress and anxiety, and may lead to improved brain function. Therefore, there are numerous benefits of using gaming — in tandem with other treatment methods including medication — in patients with mental health disorders, from anxiety and depression to PTSD. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a …

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BiPolar Bear Wear Doing Good While Looking Good

WEBThe usage of the word “bipolar” has three meanings, Stephen tells me, meaning that the title is “always open to interpretation.”. These meanings are: a polar bear from both poles, a bisexual polar bear, and a bear with bipolar disorder. The usage of puns sums up the company’s attitude to approaching mental health with humour.

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Mind, Body, Mass Effect

WEBThe trick is not to let stress get to you, as it can have a major impact on your body and mind. Enough stress can cause you to break out in fits of anger, leading to headaches and chronic fatigue. Advertisement. If your job is taking a toll, then your irritability and lack of concentration might lead to poor performance at work which could

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Mental Health in Cinema

WEBApart from the acceptance of the LGBT community, there is one social issue in the last 2 decades that has seen the most evident and seismic shift in cultural attitudes towards it; mental health awareness.

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Can Video Games Improve Vision

WEBAccording to new research, it is possible to improve your eyesight by playing high-intensity video games, especially first-person shooters. Games like Halo and Medal of Honor were played during a study conducted by researcher Daphne Maurer of McMaster University in Canada. During the study, six patients ages 19-31 with bad vision and …

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How Women Can Advocate for Themselves When Doctors Won’t

WEBDoctors rated the pain at 50 on a scale of 100 when the patients identified as male, and only 45 when identifying as female. This suggests two possibilities. One, males do physically express pain via interjections and facial expressions more readily than women. If anything, females demonstrate more, not less, stoicism than males, likely due …

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Margaret Sanger, Contraceptive Pioneer

WEBMargaret’s last major contribution to the birth control movement was in arranging funding for research into hormonal birth control, which eventually led to “the pill” first reaching the market in 1960. Shortly after that, in 1962, ill health led Margaret to retire from her position as president of Planned Parenthood.

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Sweet but Problematic Is Ava Max stigmatising mental illness

WEBShe has been involved with youth mental health charity Reach Out and writes regularly for HeadStuff on social issues surrounding mental illness and stigma. “Songs like ‘Sweet But Psycho’ just pull back on the advances artists are making,” Smyth explains. “We’ve been taking massive steps forward recently. Look at Ariana Grande and

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Henry Stanley, the Man Who Stole The Congo

WEBDavid Livingstone was a Scottish explorer, and a Victorian hero. In 1866 he had set out to find the source of the Nile and had not been heard from since. In 1869 Stanley was called into the office of the owner of the paper, James Gordon Bennett, and given one job with an unlimited budget – “Find Livingstone!”.

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The Meaning of Bird Box A Reflection Of Modern Society

WEBNetflix’s Bird Box can be viewed as one of the most intelligent movies in the current climate. It is a cleverly disguised science fiction film where art imitates life. The viewer is brought along a metaphorical path submerged into the depths of ignorance as forced behavior. Bird Box sensitively tackles the question of mental health in society.

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