Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, and the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University in Sweden have identified a gene variant linked to psychotic symptoms and cognitive impairment in people with bipolar […]

Chicago Police and Disability Rights. Long read on mental health and policing in Chicago, with an emphasis on CIT team training. I should have a piece out relatively soon on the need to stop focusing on […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, and the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University in Sweden have identified a gene variant linked to psychotic symptoms and cognitive impairment in people with bipolar […]

Moving psychiatry into a new era of biologically based diagnosis has been a long sought goal—and a priority at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), where I served as director for 13 years until r […]

Dennis Greenberger, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine. Originally published June 2014, Advances in Cognitive Therapy – a Joint Newsletter of the International Association of Cognitive Therapy and the A […]

Robert spent 20 years on the police force until 2014, when he says an arrest-gone-wrong nearly took his life. Since then, he retired and has been living with severe injuries and fighting debilitating symptoms […]

… West is keeping her fans updated on life after having her son, Saint West. The new mum shared on her website that she her placenta converted into pills which she takes every day in a bid to ward off […]

The event, also known as No-Shave November, is an annual event involving the growing of mustaches to raise awareness of men's health issues ranging from cancer to mental health. The Movember Foundation is a […]

But, oftentimes, the civilian public doesn't know what PTSD really looks like. In this video, people living with PTSD talk about what caused their stresses, what it's like to live with the condition, and how […]

The Disability Rights Network of Pennsylvania is calling for systemic changes in how people with disabilities are employed. The group's board of directors issued a white paper Friday calling for the […]

In this file photo, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., chairman of the Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, announces a bill designed to allow police to remove guns from the hands of the mentally ill […]

Following psychotherapy, borderline personality disorder patients showed changes in the activation patterns of specific brain regions.

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Want a bigger head scratcher than your daily Sudoku game? Presidential candidates' ambivalence toward mental health. Forget defunding Planned Parenthood or denouncing the Syrian refugee crisis, presidential […]

“I heard so many stories when I was pregnant with North of moms who never ate their placenta with their first baby and then had postpartum depression, but then when they took the pills with their second baby, […]

The survey, released as MPs meet to discuss student mental health, also shows 54% don't seek help.

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Acharya Han de Wit: In the beginning of our Dutch sangha, in 1977, I was the only one available with a background in how to relate to mental disorders. So our Meditation Instructors would come to me for […]

BuzzFeed Life asked a group of mothers who were diagnosed with postpartum depression and its related mood disorders about the moment they knew they needed help. ID: 7563146 …

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19 Moms Talk About Postpartum Mental Illness. “I felt like I wanted to pick up a baseball bat and walk down the street smashing windshields.” posted on Dec. 13, 2015, at 11:29 a.m.. Morgan Shanahan. Buz […]

While the state is investing heavily in programs, staff and new clinics, in many ways, it's just a down payment on the mental health system we need.

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Maternal mental illness is the No. 1 complication of pregnancy and childbirth in the United States. BuzzFeed Life spoke to a group of mothers about what it feels like to recover from postpartum depression and […]