My Blue Dots

The start of the school year means new classes, routines, after-school activities and sometimes even a new school.

Past psychology research suggests that some people are more prone than others to take risks in uncertain situations, such as investing money in risky business ventures, consuming addictive substances or leaving a secure job without any sure alternative prospects. Over the past decades, psychologists and behavioral scientists have been trying to understand the extent to which people’s willingness to take risks (i.e., risk preference) is stable and coherent, which means that it tends to remain consistent over time and across different contexts.

New evidence from a large population-based cohort analysis indicates an increased risk of both attempted and completed suicide among individuals diagnosed with headache disorders. Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark found that individuals diagnosed with migraine, tension-type headache, posttraumatic headache, and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia face an increased risk of suicide.