Approximately one in ten patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) is at risk of having a new case of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to their ICU experience up to one year after […]

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New Legislation is Next Step to Funding Quality Mental Health Care Nationwide U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) today announced they will be introducing a bill to significantly increase […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Advocates for people living with mental illnesses say they're encouraged by President Obama's proposal to spend an additional $500 million on treatment, but it's unclear if Congress w […]

Some people who are at high risk for bipolar disorder show a naturally occurring rewiring of their brain to compensate for inherited abnormalities.

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Schizophrenia's most difficult-to-treat symptoms may be caused by a loss of specific brain cells located in a tiny part of the hippocampus.

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Schizophrenia's most difficult-to-treat symptoms may be caused by a loss of specific brain cells located in a tiny part of the hippocampus.

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New Legislation is Next Step to Funding Quality Mental Health Care Nationwide U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) today announced they will be introducing a bill to significantly increase […]

One in ten patients is at risk of having new post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to their ICU experience up to a year post-discharge. This was the finding from a multicenter, prospective cohort […]

A group of disability advocates have come out in support of the Veterans Homebuyer Accessibility Act, a recently introduced bill that aims to make it easier for veterans with disabilities to live in accessible […]

Aussie researchers have found that the number and types of traumatic events experienced by kids earlier in childhood – such as an injury, severe illness and death in the family – correlate with the levels of […]

Other measures include expanding the role of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and making a $500 million investment to improve access to mental-health care. Hoover said she believes the […]

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The Social Development Commission (SDC) and NAMI of Greater Milwaukee partnered on Saturday, December 19, to offer a Mental Health Resource Fair providing free resources to individuals and . […]

Posted: 3:04 am EDT The January issue of the Foreign Service Journal is out. The issue is focused on mental health care for the Foreign Service. Dr. Samuel Thielman, a recently retired regional medical […]

The long read: Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology's dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for . […]

The long read: Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology's dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for . […]

Image: David Plays for King Saul (Ernst Josephson, 1878), public domain What does Judaism have to offer on the subject of bipolar disorder? I've already written about the general topic of Judaism and Mental […]

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But long before she wrote about her own mental illness, Swados wrote about her brother's. In an excerpt from her memoir, The Four of Us: The Story of a Family, which appeared in The New York Times Magazine in […]

In “Charlie Hebdo's PTSD” at Breitbart today, Pamela Geller discusses what went wrong with a magazine that was once a foremost defender of the freedom of speech: charlie hebdo post massacre74. In the wake of […]