Mental Health

Enhancing Mental Health: Explore ways to broaden your understanding of mental health and find solutions to lead a happier, healthier, and less-stressful life. Discover how mental health is inextricably linked to physical health and well-being.

  • Can Gaming Enhance Mental Health?

    Can Gaming Enhance Mental Health?

    Games available on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices, game consoles, and computers, have been developed to address some mental health outcomes. What is “mental health”? According to the World Health Organization, mental health “is a state of affective and cognitive wellness, and an absence of mental problems or psychological symptoms.” Cheng and Ebrahimi…

  • Prayer for Mental Health

    Prayer for Mental Health

    Does calling for divine intervention via prayer lead to reduced human suffering? Can this be studied scientifically? Numerous studies, including randomized controlled trials, have tested the effectiveness of prayer and religious interventions on physical and mental healing. This study is the first of its kind to apply a randomized crossover trial to in-person (vs. remote…