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Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Mental Toll of a World in Crisis

Chronic media exposure to global suffering overloads the nervous system, causing physiological stress, allostatic load, and compassion fatigue beyond evolutionary coping capacity.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Resilience Paradox: Why Adapting Too Well Can Break You

Allowing painful failure and deliberate recovery builds regenerative capacity, enabling sustained adaptation beyond short-term coping and 'fail-fast' agility.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

First-of-Its-Kind AI Digital Biomarker for Chronic Stress

Chronic stress that persists over an extended period of time can lead to a higher risk of developing physical and mental health issues. Having a method to quantify stress levels can be a useful diagnostic tool for clinicians. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a new, noninvasive, artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning digital biomarker for chronic stress, which was unveiled at the recent annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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