Category Archives: Autism

'Empathy gaps' causing trauma in community mental health care

That's the reality faced by some mental health patients under Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) because of a perceived lack of empathy and understanding among some of the workers meant to be helping them, according …

Virginia Tech shooting has lessons for strengthening college mental …

As the nation reels from another mass shooting on a college campus, analysis of the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech University highlights the need for "comprehensive and coordinated mental health services on college …

300 Veterans, Some With PTSD, Are on Death Row: Report – WCBD 2

The defense argued he was suffering from untreated PTSD and that he wasn't in his right mind when he abducted, robbed and fatally shot college student Lauren Burk in 2008. The Alabama jury rejected the prosecution's call …

Borderline Personality Disorder: Facts vs. Myths | World of Psychology

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric condition marked by a pattern of unstable and stormy relationships, an unformed sense of identity, chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom, unstable moods, …

Protein findings open new avenues to understanding and treatment …

Stem cells from adult schizophrenia patients form new proteins more slowly than those from healthy people, according to new research.