Category Archives: Research

Girl Scout promotes reading to help teens deal with mental illness …

And as this week's FOX 4 Reaching 4 Excellence Young Achiever turns the page on her mental health challenges, she shows us we can also read for recovery. Sixteen-year-old Teresa Shockley is drawn to books, especially …

Edmonton police lobby for the right to take mental health patients to …

Police said they've worked with partners to identify the 19 highest users of emergency services. Of those, 13 have now been housed. The service also offers more training for officers on how to relate to mental health patients.

Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America

A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …

Jessica Jones Is a Show About Trauma That Doesn't Skip Over The …

Plenty of media narratives touch on trauma and recovery nowadays, and PTSD has become a common trope. But in real life, everybody deals with trauma differently—and Marvel's new series Jessica Jones actually shows the …

Lower availability of omega-3 fatty acids associated with bipolar …

People with bipolar disorder have lower levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids that cross the blood-brain barrier than people who do not, according to researchers from Penn State College of Medicine and the National Institutes …