Media Monitor: TIME Health Reports on Kindness, Football CTE, and Postpartum PTSD

TIME Health is reporting that Yale trauma psychologist Joan M. Cook suggests engaging in random acts of kindness, noting that research indicates these acts boost happiness for both those who give and those who receive. A systematic review of 24 studies found that performing acts of kindness improves the well-being of the giver.

Separately, Jeffrey Kluger reports for TIME that at least one in four professional U.S. football players may have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a neurodegenerative disease.

Aaron Hurst at Greater Good explains that extending social invitations to new neighbors is beneficial for both parties. Additionally, Dennis Campbell writes in The Guardian that new data suggests many women experience post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, after childbirth. Campbell said these women are often misdiagnosed as having postpartum depression or receive no treatment at all.