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Shift working – does it change how we think?
Science, Maths & Technology

Shift working – does it change how we think?

...mental processes linked to the predictable changes in natural light levels. Regular sleeping habits (i.e. sleeping and waking at similar times) that match natural light changes (i.e. sleeping during darkness and waking during daylight) are important for an optimal circadian rhythm. Therefore, occasional activities like staying up later at the weekend or flying across time...
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Article 10 mins
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...mental health as fodder for media flim-flam, Dr Andrew Bell points out that passing off out-of-thin-air equations as science undervalues science as a whole: First, stories like this devalue real evidence: real findings about the world that actually do matter to people. Hundreds of researchers across the world are working to find things out that will better society. When...
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Article 5 mins
Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...mental disorder – Compulsive Hoarding, as it is called – was first recognised in 2013 as having distinct symptoms in psychiatry's standard guidebook The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In extreme cases the hoarder accumulates and refuses to discard to the extent ordinary activities, such as eating and sleeping, are interfered with as every...
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Article 5 mins
Applying Psychology to Work Activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying Psychology to Work Activity

...mental health - what are these psychological effects and what can be done to reduce their impact? Change – affects all aspects of working life and greatly impacts on wellbeing - what can be done to minimise the impact of change? Exploring the Hub For each of these two themes, click on the relevant link below to take you to one of the Articles available within the...
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Article 20 mins
Five tips for making friends at university
Education & Development

Five tips for making friends at university

...Mental Health & Wellbeing at Wrexham University, shares five tips on what you can do to help build friendships as you start your university journey. Transcript Try new things Make a list of things you’d like to have a go at, and then have a go at them! It might be a walking group, a singing group, a dance class, a reading group… Following your own interests can be a...
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Video 5 mins
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...mental health...Emotions and emotional disorders: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the value of an evolutionary perspective in understanding emotions (or moods) and emotional (or mood) disorders specify brain pathways involved in the perception and processing of emotions describe the rationale of approaches used in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour
Science, Maths & Technology

How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour

...mental health. This module covers addiction as one of its topics with a focus on the role of dopamine in producing risk taking behaviour. The module also covers other aspects of mental health including mood disorders like depression and anxiety, as well as dementias. SDK228 is part of our degree in Health Sciences (Q71) and our degree in Natural Sciences (Q64), as well as...
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Article 10 mins
‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Super-human’ athletes are at risk from the post-Olympic blues – here’s why

...mentally tough means that athletes can find it harder to speak out about their struggles. Even so, the stories of depression following previous Olympics serve as a warning to those leaving Rio; Amanda Beard, Ian Thorpe, Allison Schmidt and McKayla Maroney have all disclosed their experiences of depression. Cassie Patten, bronze medallist in the ten kilometre open water...
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Article 10 mins