Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help you identify and replace negative or damaging behaviors learned in your past. It can be helpful to people with various mental health conditions ...

Background: Internet-based self-help treatment with minimal therapist contact has been shown to have an effect in treating various conditions. The objective of this study was to explore ...

Heavy AI tool usage is associated with weaker critical thinking, a study finds, as users increasingly offload cognitive tasks instead of engaging in independent analysis. Elite athletes showed ...

This highlights that a general slowdown in processing might underlie broader cognitive and linguistic changes with age, rather than a specific challenge in memory retrieval for words. While the ...

That was over 120 years ago. However, this psychometric instrument has stood the test of time as a scientifically valid means of assessing cognitive ability. Unfortunately, not everyone has easy ...

Directly related to the treatment options, we note that thought distortions are considered one of the most common symptoms of depressive episodes. Several models have been proposed for its ...

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Such episodes could also serve as cognitive distortions, forcing individuals to view a scenario in a more threatening way than it actually is. Catastrophizing is more of a thinking pattern.