Mindfulness meditation has become increasingly popular in the United States and around the world in recent decades. Apps such ...

Mindfulness meditation has become increasingly popular in the United States and around the world in recent decades. Apps such ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died. He was 95. A post on Nhat ...

Chien Le first met the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara in 2005, a few years before Pannakara became a novice monk at the Texas ...

Melancholic depression, also called melancholia, is a serious type of depression. Researchers think this type of depression mainly affects your central nervous system. About 25%-30% of people living ...

In May 2026, global experts officially changed the name for PCOS to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). Experts say the name change more accurately reflects the condition as something ...

If you have major depressive disorder (aka major depression or clinical depression), sometimes even the smallest of hygiene tasks may feel insurmountable. Simply taking a shower or brushing your teeth ...

Social media use can lead to low quality sleep and harm mental health. It has associations with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Positive effects of social media use can include connecting ...

Imagine a severely depressed woman—let’s call her Amber—who just arrived at her therapist’s office. She is curious about receiving her first dose of psilocybin in a Phase 3 clinical study. Psilocybin ...

A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging ...