A drug destined for the scrap heap has been rescued by Oxford scientists, who may have found it a new role in treating bipolar disorder. A team from Oxford University, led by Dr Grant Churchill and Dr Sridhar […]

A call to reform the delivery of mental health care was a central component of that effort. As a result of this discussion, members of both the U.S. House and Senate drafted mental health reform legislation. […]

A drug destined for the scrap heap has been rescued by Oxford scientists, who may have found it a new role in treating bipolar disorder. A team from Oxford University, led by Dr Grant Churchill and Dr Sridhar […]

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a series of proteins that could be diagnostic markers to identify bipolar I disorder. If this discovery sample can be validated through replication these markers may […]

SALEM (CBS) — The defense rested its case in the Philip Chism murder trial on Tuesday as psychologists called by prosecutors testified that the teenager was faking the extent of his mental illness. Chism, 1 […]

Mounting evidence indicates that disturbances in the brain's glutamate pathway contribute to symptoms of schizophrenia. Thus, the glutamate pathway has become the target of a number of new drug therapies. […]

Triton Pacific exits mental health services company Meridian to Audax. … Triton Pacific Capital Partners is understood to have agreed to sell Meridian Behavioral Health to fellow private equity firm Audax. […]

A Somali-born British man who carried out a knife attack on a 56-year-old traveler at a London Underground station on Saturday was referred to police over mental health concerns three weeks before the […]

Multimedia from this Release. Multimedia with summary. Tuesday, December 8, 2015 – 10:55am. Sanofi has launched in 2008 in Madagascar a training programme for healthcare professionals to help for a better […]

Connecticut is one of 11 states that have increased funding for mental health care every year since the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a new national report.

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Experts have called for basic checks about expectant mothers' previous mental health problems after a new report showed there has been no significant change in the number of indirect maternal deaths for more […]

This past week I traveled to Charlotte to speak at an event sponsored by Carolinas HealthCare, and Carolinas is that student when it comes to behavioral health. I spoke alongside Carolinas' Dr. John […]

Having been diagnosed with clinical depression and generalized anxiety disorder at age 15, I knew I was at a high risk for postpartum depression. Pregnancy gave me a wonderful break from depressive episodes […]

I wanted to talk to you about what this looks like practically, because, as indicated by your responses to her, I am led to believe you don't fully know what treatment for her mental illness looks like. My […]

People who are diagnosed with mental health conditions did not see improvements in coordination and quality of care as hoped but did not experience large cuts in access as some had feared under an early […]

The urgency of addressing mental health in the black community is an important theme running throughout R. Malcolm Jones' film, “The Secrets Of Magic City” — one which actress Jenifer Lewis says makes it her […]

(BBC) – Disability rights campaigners who say the assisted suicide policy in England and Wales is too “liberal” have lost a High Court legal challenge. The.

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Glenn Close, esteemed Hollywood actress and six-time Academy Award nominee, thinks that “ending the stigma around mental disorders is one of the greatest challenges of our time.” …

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Two years after nearly one in five students in a U of C campus survey said they had been diagnosed or treated for a mental illness, the university on Monday launched a new mental health strategy.

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Marcia Meldrum, producer and associate researcher in the History and Social Studies of Medicine group at the Semel Institute, said the school collaborated with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental […]