Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Job Description
Psychiatric-mental health nurses (or PMHNs) are healthcare professionals who work with individuals and families suffering from psychiatric disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, dementia and schizophrenia. Work Environment PMHNs can work in a variety of locales,...
Study: Our Smartphones Make Us Dumber
A new study reinforced the hypothesis that the proximity of a smartphone owner’s mobile device can affect his or her cognitive ability. Marketing and management researchers from the University of California-San Diego, the University of...
Mental Health Awareness Day
See the person not the illness, take action, take the pledge and be stigma free. Don't be afraid to talk about mental health today by sharing our awareness infographic below!
How Does Addiction Affect the Brain?
Addiction is dangerous. It has the power to warp reality and can shatter personal and professional relationships. For a long time, it was a difficult term to define. In Latin, the word literally means...
American Heroin: Medicine, Crisis, Epidemic – Part 1: A Nation in Pain
Opiate use is deeply rooted in American history, with waves of addiction rolling over the vast North American landscape over the last two centuries. As a 2014 piece from The Atlantic noted, “with the...
5 Health Benefits of Pets (Plus: What’s Your Spirit Animal?)
Saturday is International Homeless Animals Day. We thought you should know that. We thought you’d like to be aware that the third Saturday in August is the day designated back in 1992 by the International...
Get a Grip on Anxiety – 5 Ways to Relieve Test Stress
Anxiety affects us all at one point or another. While people don’t necessarily get stressed out over the same things, the effects of anxiety over time are all similar. Prolonged bouts of stress can...
Clinical Psychologist Career Profile
Clinical psychology is a branch of psychology that helps patients overcome mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. Clinical psychologists study the reasons why people make certain decisions and why they act in certain ways. They...
Strange Facts – The Average Person Eats 6 Lbs of Dirt in Their Lifetime
You won’t be hard pressed to find different shows on the Discovery Channel or Food Network documenting some of the weird things people eat. Insects, rodents, you name it, someone’s eaten it. What if...