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The Truth About … Improving Your Mental Health

Author: Editorial 27th January 2021 0 Comments

This 57 minute video from the BBC ranges across a variety of subjects, including heartbeat control, diet and the gut-to-brain vagal nerve connection, exercise, passive vs active engagement with social media, loneliness, social prescribing, insomnia and more. The programme producers say:…
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Alex Scott, anxiety, COM-B Behaviour Change Model, cortisol, Cranial electrotherapy stimulation, depression, diet, exercise, gut microbiome, heartbeat control, insomnia, loneliness, neuroscience, probiotics, psychobiotics, sleep disruption, social media, social prescribing, stress, Tanya Byron, videos

#SortingOutSocialMedia

Author: Editorial 13th December 2019 0 Comments

This report comes from the Happiness Research Institute and & Nordic Council of Ministers: “Does social media really pose a threat to young people’s well-being? This report examines the relationship between social media use and well-being. It demonstrates that young people’s…
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children and adolescents, Nordic Council of Ministers, social media

The Anatomy of Loneliness

Author: Editorial 18th July 2019 0 Comments

The links between loneliness and mental ill-health are well-established. In 2018 the BBC conducted a “Loneliness Experiment”, concerning which there are three radio broadcast episodes : Episode 1 : 55,000 people completed the BBC Loneliness Experiment. Claudia Hammond reveals the results and…
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BBC, Claudia Hammond, Culture & Society, loneliness, Loneliness Experiment, social media, wellbeing

A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health

Author: Editorial 15th February 2019 0 Comments

From an article in Salon by Nicole Karlis: “Many of us have become so accustomed to social media that it is hard to remember when it was not intrinsic to our lives, though in reality it has not existed in a…
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Facebook, Nicole Karlis, Research, social media, Social Science Research Network

Schools ‘should help children with social media risk’

Author: Editorial 27th June 2018 0 Comments

The BBC reports (January 2018) on a study from England’s children’s commissioner: “Schools should play a bigger role in preparing children for social media’s emotional demands as they move from primary to secondary school, England’s children’s commissioner says. Anne Longfield said she…
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Anne Longfield, BBC, children, primary schools, schoolchildren, schools, social media