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‘Climate anxiety affects half of world’s youth’

‘Climate anxiety affects half of world’s youth’

Inquirer.Net Reports: Quick Summary The results of a study of 10,000 university students in 32 countries indicates that climate anxiety is gripping nearly half of world’s youth. While youth are motivated to take action to help save the planet, an inability to help is hurting people’s mental health. Key Points Climate anxiety is understood as the psychological distress—fear, shame, guilt, worry, hopelessness and despair—caused by the environment and climate crisis on people. Almost half of the young people surveyed felt “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change.

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Breakthrough in brain stimulation offers cautious hope for depression

Breakthrough in brain stimulation offers cautious hope for depression

Harvard Health Publishing Reports: Quick Summary A dramatically different approach to transcranial magnetic stimulation is promising, but needs further study. If other tools do not help depression, the next line of treatment for some may be a noninvasive form of brain stimulation called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). TMS is helpful in certain cases and has very few side effects. Key Points Researchers from Stanford modified standard TMS techniques to create a novel protocol called Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy (SAINT).

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