Latest Mental Health News

NASA research on dealing with isolation in enclosed spaces could aid the Chilean miners who are likely to be trapped for months.

Interest in reincarnation is on the rise, and its purveyors are not monks or theologians, but therapists.

Researchers say that Americans are less likely to believe someone who is a non-native English speaker.

“While I’m glad to know that Daphne Merkin (Aug. 8) has had positive experiences in psychoanalysis, much of what she describes is typical of a more old-fashioned though still prevalent way of working.”

The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is providing a new dimension to its Hearts & Minds initiative, an educational program that promotes "mind and body" health practices for individuals who live with mental illness...

A "game-changing" technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights against cancer and many other diseases. University of Central Florida chemists, led by Professor Kevin Belfield, used near infrared light and fluorescent dye to take pictures of cells and tumors deep within tissue...

Young healthy adults aged between 17 and 24 years who get less than an average of 5 hours' sleep each night have three times the risk of developing a mental illness compared to individuals of the same age who sleep eight to nine hours every night, according to a study carried out by the George Institute on Global Health, published in the medical journal Sleep...

Young, Black women are significantly more likely to self-harm than people from other ethnic groups, according to new research published in the September issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry...

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has raised added concern about a study released by The Urban Institute that shows more than one-half of babies in poverty are being raised by mothers living with depression -- creating parenting and child development challenges...

A parental history of serious mental disorder is associated with an increased risk for a wide range of mental health disorders in children, including disorders that were previously thought to be unrelated, researchers have found.

Around a fifth of patients with bipolar II disorder have a history of psychosis during depression, say researchers who suggest that bipolar II disorder with psychosis may represent a distinct phenotype.

Cognitive function does not deteriorate during the first episode of psychosis, say Dutch researchers in findings that suggest cognitive impairment, particularly in the domain of verbal memory, is present before this time.

Results from a Dutch study suggest that mood reactions to daily events are similar between bipolar disorder patients who have achieved remission and mental healthy individuals.

A combination of cannabis use and childhood trauma increases the risk for psychotic symptoms in adolescence to a greater extent than would be expected from the additive effect of these two risk factors alone, researchers have found.