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Hikikomori: Is This Dark Japanese Phenomenon Going Global?A lantern lights up a lonely street in Kyoto, Japan.
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Hikikomori: Is This Dark Japanese Phenomenon Going Global?

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The Average Person Holds Nine "Moderately Significant" Secrets, And They're Roughly What You'd Expect

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COVID-19 Can Alter Sperm And Affect Brain Development In Offspring, Causing Anxious Behavior

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Scientists Find Common Factors In People Who Have "Out-Of-Body" Experiences

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Negative News Can Take Its Toll On Your Health – Here's How A "Detox" Could HelpA photo of a person's hand holding a smart phone with the words "Everything is bad" on the screen. The and hand is set against a black and white grid background.

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Negative News Can Take Its Toll On Your Health – Here's How A "Detox" Could HelpA photo of a person's hand holding a smart phone with the words "Everything is bad" on the screen. The and hand is set against a black and white grid background.
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Negative News Can Take Its Toll On Your Health – Here's How A "Detox" Could Help

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Imposter Syndrome: What Is It, Who Gets It, And What Can We Do About It?illustration representing imposter syndrome; a large head wearing a mask with a feminine face, but behind it is a thought bubble with question mark where the brain would be; in the foreground, a female figure in a red blazer sits looking dejected while next to her an identical figure is standing upright holding an award

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Imposter Syndrome: What Is It, Who Gets It, And What Can We Do About It?illustration representing imposter syndrome; a large head wearing a mask with a feminine face, but behind it is a thought bubble with question mark where the brain would be; in the foreground, a female figure in a red blazer sits looking dejected while next to her an identical figure is standing upright holding an award
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Imposter Syndrome: What Is It, Who Gets It, And What Can We Do About It?

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Scary Or Safe? New Brain Pathway Quashes The Instinct To Flee From DangerCoronal brain slice showing projections from different visual areas in the cerebral cortex to the ventrolateral geniculate nucleus (vLGN). These pathways are part of the circuit identified as mediating the suppression of instinctive fear responses.

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Scary Or Safe? New Brain Pathway Quashes The Instinct To Flee From DangerCoronal brain slice showing projections from different visual areas in the cerebral cortex to the ventrolateral geniculate nucleus (vLGN). These pathways are part of the circuit identified as mediating the suppression of instinctive fear responses.
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Scary Or Safe? New Brain Pathway Quashes The Instinct To Flee From Danger

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Good Mornings And Bad Nights? Happiness Is Higher At Certain Times Of The DayThe photo is looking down on a man laying in bed on a bright morning. He has his arms behind his head and is looking out of the window with a wistful look on his face. His bedsheets are all white.
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Good Mornings And Bad Nights? Happiness Is Higher At Certain Times Of The Day

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Mood Patches: Can A Sticker Really Make You Feel Better?an image of an arm with a sticker on it saying "good mood"
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Mood Patches: Can A Sticker Really Make You Feel Better?

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Rats Hiding From Scary "Robogator" Reveal How The Brain Creates A “Worry Map”A rat peeking around a corner is concerned about the robot at the end of the hall.
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Rats Hiding From Scary "Robogator" Reveal How The Brain Creates A “Worry Map”

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Leaded Gasoline Was Responsible For 150 Million Cases Of Psychiatric Disorders In America Alone3D illustration of human face looking towards the right with the tongue sticking out, sitting on which are power stations, towers releasing smoke and fumes, barrels of oil, and other waste to show the risk to human health from environmental pollutants

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Leaded Gasoline Was Responsible For 150 Million Cases Of Psychiatric Disorders In America Alone3D illustration of human face looking towards the right with the tongue sticking out, sitting on which are power stations, towers releasing smoke and fumes, barrels of oil, and other waste to show the risk to human health from environmental pollutants
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Leaded Gasoline Was Responsible For 150 Million Cases Of Psychiatric Disorders In America Alone

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Over 100 Anxiety-Associated Genes Identified In Huge New Multi-Ancestry Studysection of DNA (left); young woman hunched over looking stressed (right)

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Over 100 Anxiety-Associated Genes Identified In Huge New Multi-Ancestry Study

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If You Find Using Public Bathrooms Tricky, You Could Have Parcopresisclose up of person holding buttocks and a roll of toilet paper; they are photographed with their back to the camera and in the background you can see a blurry bathroom with several urinals and stalls

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If You Find Using Public Bathrooms Tricky, You Could Have Parcopresisclose up of person holding buttocks and a roll of toilet paper; they are photographed with their back to the camera and in the background you can see a blurry bathroom with several urinals and stalls
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If You Find Using Public Bathrooms Tricky, You Could Have Parcopresis

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Psychedelics May Help To Treat StutteringStuttering psychedelics

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Psychedelics May Help To Treat Stuttering

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Your Genes Could Increase Your Heart Attack Risk At Election Timesilhouette of US capitol building at sunset with an american flag in the background, and a faded image of a male torso with the hands clutching the chest, which is red to signify a heart attack

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Your Genes Could Increase Your Heart Attack Risk At Election Timesilhouette of US capitol building at sunset with an american flag in the background, and a faded image of a male torso with the hands clutching the chest, which is red to signify a heart attack
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Your Genes Could Increase Your Heart Attack Risk At Election Time

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