Category Archives: NAMI

Expert links increase in mental illness to stressful environment

With 20 percent of nigerians said to be prone to mental disorder, expert has linked the rising incidences of the disorder among nigerians to stressful and difficult environment. Speaking in lagos, the renowned consultant …

State Expands Mental Health Services for Probationers | 540 WRGC

According to a report by the Urban Institute, more than half of North Carolina's prisoners have a mental health problem. To help address those issues, six counties are expanding mental health services for probationers with …

PTSD and the DSM-5 | Mind the Brain – PLOS Blogs Network

More than thirty-five years after the 1980 recognition of PTSD in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the data are unequivocal: Today there can be no doubt about the validity of PTSD as a …

'Patient No More' show in Berkeley documents a historic disability …

A segment of the sweeping mural at the Ed Roberts Campus, part of the 'Patient No More' exhibition. Photo: Fran Osborne. By Margit Stange. “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights,” a multi-media …

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.