Latest Mental Health News

Psychologists are beginning to unravel the mystery behind this brand of American political paranoia.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

A psychiatrist says psychotherapy can be a potent treatment for serious mental illnesses. Readers are invited to reply.

In looking back at the past, we need to remove the rose-colored glasses.

A flurry of discussion about public misperception of climate scientists’ views misses another science perception gap.

The integration of mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week's PLOS Medicine...

There is a link between use of anabolic-androgenic steroids and reduced mental health later in life. This is the main conclusion of a new study on elite male strength athletes that researchers from the University of Gothenburg recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Twenty per cent of the subjects in the study admitted steroid use...

But majority of deaths are due to physical conditions, not suicide The gap between life expectancy in patients with a mental illness and the general population has widened since 1985 and efforts to reduce this gap should focus on improving physical health, suggest researchers in a paper published today on bmj.com...

Suicide can be contagious, especially among teenagers, according to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). The research suggests that one person's suicide can influence another person's suicidal thoughts or behavior, and this is particularly seen among younger adolescents...

Nearly 20% of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number has been increasing for over a decade, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report covered the topic of mental disorders among children aged 3 to 17 for the first time...

Age at menarche may be related to certain mood traits in women with bipolar disorder, a study shows.

Elderly people with schizophrenia have a relatively high level of subjective quality-of-life, as has been previously documented in younger patients, report Dutch researchers.

A course of neuropsychologic rehabilitation – the REHACOP program – improves negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia, which in turn relieves functional disability, shows a randomized, controlled trial.

Many patients with a major depressive episode also have subthreshold hypomania or mania, say researchers who suggest that the DSM-IV classification may be too narrow to diagnose more subtle forms of bipolar disorder.

Two studies reported this week show that levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines are associated with both pulmonary function and depressive symptoms.