Irish Mental Health
- Concern over "fragile" mental health services
- Impact of COVID on bereaved parents studied
- Big dementia risk for people with Down syndrome
- Pharmacy staff receive dementia training
- Irish Dementia Café Network launched
- COVID-19 has had "severe impact" on children
- Many anxious about returning to workplace
- Many older people struggling with loneliness
- Assessment of Need backlog to be tackled
- Warning over foetal alcohol spectrum disorders
World Mental Health
- Social media use linked with depression, secondary trauma during COVID-19
- Pandemic sets off future wave of worsening mental health issues
- How the brain balances emotion and reason
- Study links rising stress, depression in U.S. to pandemic-related losses, media consumption
- Pets linked to maintaining better mental health and reducing loneliness during lockdown, new research shows
- Novel neuroimaging study on dissociative symptoms reveals wounds of childhood trauma
- Low level alcohol use during pregnancy can impact child's brain development
- Loneliness levels high during COVID-19 lockdown
- Job security, finances strongly related to increased anxiety during pandemic
- Enrolling in health education courses may help change student's beliefs about stress