How the Pandemic Is Changing Mental Health

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September 14, 2021

Mental Health How the Pandemic Is Changing Mental Health COVID has jostled people's emotional equilibrium. Therapy apps, telehealth, lay counselors and psilocybin are poised to change the foundations of caregiving By P. Murali Doraiswamy,Cameron Fox,Joshua Gordon

Mental Health The Top 10 Innovations in Mental Health A look at methods and technologies that are transforming the work of psychiatrists and psychologists

Physiology In Autoimmune Disease, Organs May Lure the Immune System into an Attack New evidence indicates that target cells may play a role in their own destruction By Stephani Sutherland

Mental Health School-Based Online Programs Instruct Pupils about Good Mental Health Education programs in India and New York State teach a basic awareness about stress, anxiety and depression By Shekhar Saxena,Anisha Padukone

Climate Change Rare Arctic Hurricane Dampens Historic Greenland Melting Once a tropical cyclone, Hurricane Larry dumped snow on the island's massive ice sheet By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Pollution Tiny Robots Could Clean Up Microplastic Pollution In a proof-of-concept study, microscopic self-propelled devices found and broke down microplastic particles By Scott Hershberger

Mental Health Welcome to the Ultimate Neuroscience Lab: Your Smartphone Digital devices can provide better and more useful information than the typical studies conducted with U.S. college students as participants By Karen Rommelfanger,Álvaro Fernández Ibáñez

Mental Health Novel Drug Therapies Could Tackle Treatment-Resistant Depression An anesthetic, a steroid and a psychedelic are new treatments for a devastating psychiatric disorder By Husseini Manji,Joseph Hayes

Agriculture Here's How Much Food Contributes to Climate Change Animal-based foods produce about twice the emissions of plant-based ones, a new comprehensive study finds By Andrea Thompson

Planetary Science Solar 'Superflares' Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago--and Could Strike Again Although our sun is considered a quiet star, it is now thought to have repeatedly pelted our planet with enormous eruptions in the not too distant past. Could another occur in the near future? By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Climate Change U.S. Climate Equity Office Debuts, But With a Tiny Budget It aims to help communities become more resilient to climate change, particularly its health impacts By Ariel Wittenberg,E&E News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 325, Issue 4

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FROM THE ARCHIVE A Step to Ease the Pandemic Mental Health Crisis A technique known as psychological first aid could help reduce COVID stress and anxiety By THE EDITORS | February 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "All of us need to sustain and enhance our psychological resilience to weather the daily toll of activity restrictions, rising case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths." The Editors at Scientific American

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