Latest Mental Health News

A science writer addresses the question: What makes a sage?

A philosopher and psychoanalyst documents the stories of veterans and brings a dual perspective to the experience of war.

Shot by shot, films have evolved to resemble the natural rhythms of the brain.

The government doctors and psychologists who participated in and authorized the torture of detainees should be investigated.

Want to move? Detest the very thought? Feelings about home may be complicated by market conditions.

Mental illness can affect anyone, including celebrities and public leaders. The American Psychiatric Foundation's ninth annual Conversations event, will feature sportscaster and former NFL star Terry Bradshaw, who will talk candidly about his personal story of living with mental illness...

Rhesus monkey babies born to mothers who had the flu while pregnant had smaller brains and showed other brain changes similar to those observed in human patients with schizophrenia, a study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found...

Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) was honored last night by the American Psychological Association for his advocacy work and legislative accomplishments on mental health issues. The APA presented Kennedy with the 2010 Outstanding Leadership Award, given annually to a member of Congress who has prominently championed the goals of professional psychology...

Mind today presents new evidence to illustrate the barriers people face when trying to make a complaint about counsellors and psychotherapists and urgently calls for independent statutory regulation to help protect clients from malpractice (1)...

Beginning with the upcoming fifth edition, new versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will be identified with Arabic rather than Roman numerals, marking a change in how future updates will be created, according to the American Psychiatric Association...

Patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia display a diminished loudness dependence of the auditory evoked potential relative to mentally healthy controls, study results show.

Patients with schizophrenia and otherwise mentally healthy individuals with social anhedonia both show deficits in adopting the perspective of others, study results demonstrate.

Depressive symptoms are significantly associated with low subjective wellbeing in newly admitted patients with schizophrenia, study findings suggest.

Bipolar disorder patients with comorbid alcohol use disorder show a higher frequency of a serotonin transporter gene polymorphism than their peers with no alcohol comorbidity, research shows.

White blood cell count may be useful for predicting the metabolic syndrome and more severe psychiatric symptoms in non-diabetic patients with schizophrenia, say US researchers.