The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering web-based training for skilled nursing providers on how to conduct standardized cognitive and mood assessments in residents. The training ...

Mood tracking can be an effective tool for managing and preventing bipolar disorder episodes. Here’s how it works. Living with bipolar disorder can be overwhelming at times. The shifts between ...

“How do you feel?” can be a surprisingly difficult question to answer, but new apps are making it possible to track the ups and downs of your emotional weather as easily as EKGs graph heart rate. New ...

Mood tracker apps help a person monitor their mood over time and learn how external factors, such as their diet or lifestyle, affect how they feel. Some are free, while others are upgradable or ...

Cannabis sativa, the marijuana plant, contains hundreds of psychoactive substances whose effects vary widely. The two main psychoactive cannabis compounds (cannabinoids) are ...

The quality of sleep you get may be more important than quantity, according to a new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine. The research suggests that awakening several times throughout ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office today published a new patent application (via AppleInsider) from Apple that describes a method of mood-based advertisement. This method infers the mood of ...

If you're in a bad mood, any number of factors could be at play — your commute was annoying, your job is stressful, or maybe you're just having one of those days/weeks/months where nothing seems to go ...

In a recent study posted to the Research Square* preprint server, researchers assessed the role of cortisol levels in human hair as a biomarker in bipolar disorder. Study: Hair cortisol as a biomarker ...

An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted, unhelpfully, with the ...