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Mindfulness meditation

Mindfulness can improve mental health and wellbeing – but unlikely to work for everyone

11 Jan 2021

Mindfulness courses can reduce anxiety, depression and stress and increase mental wellbeing within most but not all non-clinical settings, say a team...

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Keyboard warrior

Many highly-engaged employees suffer from burnout

21 Feb 2018

Underlining the danger of job burnout, a new study of more than 1,000 US workers finds that many employees who are highly engaged in their work are...

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Students studying

Mindfulness training reduces stress during exam time

18 Dec 2017

Mindfulness training can help support students at risk of mental health problems, concludes a randomised controlled trial carried out by researchers...

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Eggs. Plenty of them.

'Precarious scheduling' at work affects over four million people in UK – far more than just zero-hours

16 Aug 2017

Analysis of EU survey data suggests millions in UK may suffer anxiety as a result of unpredictable management-imposed flexible working hours...

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Blankets to Keep Warm

Opinion: Feeling anxious about that first date? Here’s how science can help

11 Oct 2016

​Does anxiety keep getting in the way of you making connections with the people you’d like to spend more time with? Maybe you’ve just met someone...

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General Admission 2012

Mindfulness study to look at benefits in helping build resilience to stress among university students

29 Sep 2015

Students at the University of Cambridge are to be offered free, eight-week mindfulness training to help build resilience against stress as part of a...

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Pregnant mother

Mother’s stress hormone levels may affect foetal growth and long term health of child

26 Jan 2015

Increased levels of stress hormones can lead pregnant mice to overeat, but affect growth of the foetus and, potentially, the long term health of the...

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That was supposed to be going up, wasn't it?

Stress hormones in financial traders may trigger ‘risk aversion’ and contribute to market crises

18 Feb 2014

New study’s findings overturn theory of personal risk preference as a ‘stable trait’, and show that real source of instability in risk behaviour “...

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High stress levels found in monkeys forced to spend more time foraging

24 Jan 2013

New research shows that disturbed habitats are resulting in increasingly poor diets for monkeys, and that the additional time and energy required to...

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Computer Keyboard

PCs to blame for rise in stressed out workers

30 Sep 2011

New research shows early adoption of PCs led to a rise in work intensity in the UK

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