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Nothing can possibly be a young person’s fault when they dismiss anyone who challenges them as having some form of neurological disorder

Joyce Mau, Grace Wakeman, and Natalia Emsley keep you up to date on the latest scientific developments in Cambridge

Popular belief and traditional psychological theory has held that suppressing negative or unwanted thoughts and bottling up your feelings or emotions can be mentally unhealthy.

Researchers describe the effects of thought suppression on mnemonic, affective, positive, or negative mental health indices.

Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit trained 120 volunteers worldwide to suppress thoughts about negative events

Suppressing negative thoughts may not be bad for mental health and may even improve depression symptoms up to three months later, a new study suggests.

A new study argues that, for some people, suppressing negative thoughts and worries might be a more successful strategy.

Telegraph: Burying negative feelings is thought to be bad. But that might not be the case.

Suppressing negative thoughts may not be harmful after all, says new study from University of Cambridge researchers. Training participants to actively suppress worrisome thoughts led to less vivid fears and improved mental health, challenging the notion that thought suppression is maladaptive.

The commonly-held belief that attempting to suppress negative thoughts is bad for our mental health could be wrong, suggests a new studyScientists at the University of Cambridge trained 120 volunteers across 16 countries to suppress thoughts ...