Major Study Reveals What Celibacy Indicates About Health, Psychology, and Environment
How much do intelligence, education, or our environment determine whether we ever have sex? A new study involving over 400,000 people shows: Lifelong celibacy is not a fringe phenomenon—it is…
What Could Finally End the U.S. Mental Health Crisis
Americans have lived with a mental health crisis for as long as most of us can remember. And for just as long, medicine has been warned of two urgent fixes.…
Fine-tuning LLMs in behavioral psychology for scalable health coaching
MHC-Coach message generation A fine-tuning approach was selected for MHC-Coach as it supports low-latency, single-turn interactions without the runtime overhead of multi-step prompting, making it well-suited for mobile-health deployment. Data…
Brain Health and Mental Capacity Depend on Physical Activity
Nowadays, no one seriously doubts that physical activity improves our physical health, along with our mental health and cognitive abilities. Physically active children perform better in school, achieving better academic…
It’s Not About the Weight, It’s About the Weight Stigma
Alberga, A. S., Edache, I. Y., Forhan, M., & Russell-Mayhew, S. (2019). Weight bias and health care utilization: a scoping review. Primary health care research & development, 20, e116. Alimoradi,…
RSU Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy and RSU LASE celebrate new teams, facilities, and future goals
Writer: Ilze Āķe-Vīksne, RSU Public Relations Unit On 11 September, Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) hosted a celebratory event for the Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy and the RSU Latvian…