November 02, 2009 Nov. 2--Mental-health counselors at La Salle University were feeling overwhelmed, their appointment books packed with students in need of help, seemingly more so than ever.

October 16, 2009 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct 16, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Drinking. Drugs. Caving into peer pressure. When parents expect their teenagers to conform to negative stereotypes, those teens are in fact more likely to do so, according to new research by professor of psychology Christy Buchanan.

October 14, 2009 WASHINGTON - Female soldiers and others serving in dangerous roles behind the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained it was hard to prove their combat experience when applying for disability for post-traumatic stress disorder.

October 07, 2009 Oct. 7--Unemployed people are four times more likely to experience severe mental-health issues, including depression, than people with jobs, according to a survey released yesterday by the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health America.

October 06, 2009 GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Running a marathon, grab a carbohydrate bar. Lifting weights, gulp a protein shake. But climbing into a fighter jet? Butter-soaked lobster might help.

For those needing a quick dose of advice, a “speed shrinking” event offered sessions with eight psychologists and psychiatrists in less than half an hour.

How an invitation from a prominent American scientist 100 years ago gave psychoanalysis its start in the United States.

Criticism can teach valuable lessons, if delivered and received in a positive way. Upbringing and culture can account for great differences in one’s personal language of criticism.

The doctor, James Heilman, defended his decision to publicize the images on Wikipedia and demystify the secretive Rorschach test.

A new Army program is intended to prevent problems like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

News outlets report on a variety of health issues at the state level including immigrants' challenges when trying to access new care in Massachusetts and a proposal by employees to cut some services but keep open a mental hospital in Maryland. The Boston Globe reports: Gov.

In the wake of several recent highly-publicized stories about violence among school-aged children, a new report shows that school districts participating in the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative substantially improved the safety of their students.

Mental Health America today praised the House health reform bill (the Affordable Health Care for Americans Act, H.R. 3962) for taking ground-breaking steps to expand coverage and significantly improving access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment services.

Mind has found evidence that the UK's complex asylum seeker process, detention centres and aspects of UK life are actively worsening the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers. In two new reports, the charity shows how a lack of support and resources for refugees and asylum seekers is both exacerbating pre-existing mental health conditions and triggering them in the first place. In the

UNISON, the UK's largest public sector union, has accused employers of "burying their heads in the sand," instead of tackling stress, anxiety and depression in the workplace. The latest statistics from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence show that 13.7 million working days are lost each year as a result of work-related illness, costing employers a massive £28.3bn a year.

The children of bipolar disorder parents face the highest risk for mood episodes during adolescence, with depression almost always the index episode, the results of a Canadian and Czech study indicate.

Variations in the dopamine transporter gene ordinarily affect insular, cingulate, and striatal function during an executive task, but the impact on activation is altered in patients with schizophrenia, UK scientists have discovered.

Bipolar disorder patients show significant differences in serum chemokine levels compared with healthy individuals that may act as markers for the disorder, Brazilian study findings indicate.

Schizophrenia patients early in the course of the disease exhibit reductions in white matter integrity in fascicules that connect brain regions previously associated with chronic schizophrenia, scientists have shown.

US researchers have found that men, but not women, with bipolar disorder have larger cerebellar vermis volumes than healthy individuals.