By Gudrun Heise “Although I hadn’t used the stove at all, I touched every ring to check that it was off. Finally I had to keep telling myself: ‘Off! Off! Off!’” Michaela says (her name has been changed by the editor). Even when Michaela was a child, there were rituals that she always had to […]
By Joe Roman and Taylor Ricketts The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is the deepest and longest period of malaise in a dozen years. Our colleagues at the University of Vermont have concluded this by analyzing posts on Twitter. The Vermont Complex Systems Center studies 50 million tweets a day, scoring the “happiness” of […]
A study from a hospital in Milan, Italy has uncovered another complication to the process of recovering from the new coronavirus. More than half of patients surveyed one month after their treatment had developed a psychiatric disorder. The study, published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity on Thursday, found that 55 percent of former patients surveyed […]
By Arash Javanbakht For some combat veterans, the Fourth of July is not a time to celebrate the independence of the country they love. Instead, the holiday is a terrifying ordeal. That’s because the noise of fireworks – loud, sudden, and reminiscent of war – rocks their nervous system. Daily fireworks in many U.S. cities […]
By Greg Watts Many of us have been spending more time at home than ever before, and chances are unless you live by yourself in the middle of nowhere, at some point unwanted noise will have infiltrated your lockdown. Whether it’s cars passing nearby, a neighbor’s blaring music or the constant drone of a lawnmower, […]
By Ann-Christin Herbe Normally, it is easy for me to motivate myself to work out. But there are also the days when my couch seems so much more comfortable than the weight bench in the gym. On such days, out of habit, I mostly reach for my cell phone and open Instagram to distract myself […]
By Nicholas Joyce The coronavirus has resulted in stress, anxiety and fear – symptoms that might motivate a person to see a therapist. Because of social distancing, however, in-person sessions are less possible. For many, this has raised the prospect of online therapy. For clients in need of warmth and reassurance, could this work? Studies […]
Many people are anxious to know when life will return to normal after the emergence of the new coronavirus, but a top World Health Organization (WHO) official warned that we may never be rid of the new disease. “This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go […]
By Wladislaw Rivkin As an academic who regularly worked from home in the days before coronavirus, my friends often joked about what they imagined my daily routine might be (such as enjoying a morning gin and not changing out of my pajamas). But as many people now realize, the reality is quite different. Working from […]
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