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Mental health is in the news every day. Mental Hum filters it for you. New articles land on the front page throughout the day, and join this growing archive of headlines. Topics range from clinical to policy to crisis care (and beyond), all aimed at bringing to light the stories that usually fly under the radar.

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Research · Global

July 28, 2026

Mitochondrial accumulation and lysosomal dysfunction result in mitochondrial plaques in Alzheimer’s disease

Nature Neuroscience

Research · Global

July 28, 2026

Effects of psychosocial stress on opioid self-administration in healthy participants: a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial

Nature Neuroscience

Research · Global

July 28, 2026

The sense of self shapes the impact of environmental factors on technostress and mental health: a two-wave longitudinal study

Nature Psychology

Research · Global

Yesterday

Psychologists studied adult webcam interactions and found a surprising relationship dynamic

Are online adult webcam relationships purely transactional? A new study suggests otherwise, finding that emotional intimacy and personal investment play a surprisingly large role in keeping both performers and paying viewers committed to their digital connections.

PsyPost

Research · Global

Yesterday

Higher aerobic fitness is linked to lower heart rates during acute stress

A new study reveals that people with higher aerobic capacity experience lower heart rates during acute stress. However, fitness doesn’t seem to blunt the body’s hormonal or psychological stress responses, regardless of the type of stressor.

PsyPost

Research · Global

Yesterday

Bulimia nervosa

Nature Psychology

Mental Health · United Kingdom

Yesterday

NSW to send paramedics not police to some mental health emergencies after multiple deaths

Mental health experts to triage triple zero calls, but not all of the changes will be implemented 24/7 or statewide Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates New South Wales will send specialist nurses rather than police to some mental health emergencies after the…

The Guardian

Youth · Global

Today

How parenting styles affect subjective well-being in middle school students? The chain mediating role of family functioning and core self-evaluation

Parenting styles are crucial to adolescent development, yet how they affect subjective well-being (SWB) remains unclear. Grounded in ecological systems theory, this study examines the effects of parenting styles on middle school students’ SWB and tests the chain mediation of…

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Research · Global

Today

Chronic pain and its correlation with quality of life in hospitalized stable patients with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional survey in Southern Sichuan, China

The complex paradox of pain perception in schizophrenia often leads to under recognition of chronic pain in this population. To investigate the relationship between chronic pain and quality of life (QoL) in hospitalized stable patients, we conducted a cross-sectional study from…

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Research · United States

Yesterday

Go/No-Go—How Mental Health Research Took a Wrong Turn: An Interview with Author Marianne Apostolides

Marianne Apostolides discusses how Go/No-Go grew from her search for new eating-disorder treatments into a critique of the metaphors, experiments, and technologies shaping contemporary neuroscience and psychiatry.

Mad in America