A small new paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry adds to the debate, offering a new perspective on how schizophrenia is experienced across cultures. Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann worked with a team of …
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Every Day Should Be Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day!
May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness month, when agencies on the local, state and federal level along with private and public organizations promote campaigns designed to increase awareness of perinatal mood …
How Culture Affects Mental Illness: Do Crazy Times Make People …
The science behind America's deepening disturbance.
More than a Hundred Genetic Variants Tied to Schizophrenia
To a large extent, schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders are illnesses caused by genes. Now teams of scientists from research centers around the world, looking at the genetics of nearly 80,000 people, have worked …
Supreme Court's Harris Decision Hurts the Disabled | New Republic
It's noteworthy that many of the nation's most prominent disability rights advocacy organizations signed an amicus brief supporting the state of Illinois in this lawsuit. Most are now very disappointed. Now that this partnership …