Michael Sinclair RELAX Trial Tests Early Digital Support for Anxiety Around Childbirth A digital training program added to usual maternity care reduced anxiety scores in a new randomized trial of pregnant adults. The RELAX study, published on November 4 in JAMA Network Open, offers evid... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair Mindfulness Training Changes Brain Responses During Opioid Treatment A structured mindfulness-based therapy changed how participants responded to drug-related cues in a new opioid-use-disorder trial. The October 28 report in JAMA Psychiatry studied Mindfulness-Oriented... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair Music-Anxiety Trial Tests a Combined Training Program A trial of a combined training program for undergraduate musicians reports lower performance-anxiety scores after twelve weeks. The program brought together physiological monitoring, biofeedback, brea... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair First Parenthood and Remote Work Show Uneven Mental-Health Patterns A new UK study finds that the transition to first parenthood is followed by different mental-distress patterns among employed women and men. Working from home did not consistently separate better from... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair Schooling Reform Offers New Evidence on Later Dementia Risk A change in Britain's school-leaving age has given researchers a way to study whether education can influence dementia risk many years later. A new paper in PNAS reports lower incidence of Alzheimer's... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair A Brief Mindset Message Encourages Mental-Health App Re-Engagement A brief message presenting mental health as something that can improve may help some people return to a self-help app. A randomized study published October 13 in npj Digital Medicine examines that pra... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair A Depression Brain-Connectivity Score Remains a Research Tool A study published in Nature Mental Health on October 21 asks whether patterns of communication between brain regions can capture a signal associated with major depressive disorder. It is a research qu... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair A Hong Kong Resilience Study Looks Beyond Individual Willpower A new Hong Kong study examines psychological resilience across health, relationships, financial stability and other parts of life. Its broad view is important: resilience should not be reduced to a te... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair Activity, Genetic Risk and Depression: What an Observational Study Can Tell Us A new study connects physical activity, genetic vulnerability and depression in a large U.S. research dataset. Its useful message is more careful than “exercise cancels genetic risk”: the researchers ... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair A Nature-Mindfulness Pilot Shows Why Dropout Matters A pilot study published in Frontiers in Psychology on September 24, 2026 compared a short nature-based mindfulness programme with unstructured outdoor walks. Its most useful message is not that one ap... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair Patient Feedback Helps an Experimental Epilepsy Monitor Learn A study published in Nature Medicine on October 13, 2026 explores a more conversational relationship between people with epilepsy and their monitoring equipment. Thirteen hospital patients used a smar... Mind Research News
Michael Sinclair Blood Markers and Genes Refine Dementia Risk Estimates Combining a blood biomarker with genetic information improved estimates of cognitive-impairment risk in a large pooled study. The research points toward more informative assessment, but it does not gi... Mind Research News