But Boulter — who suffers from onset dementia, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia — never showed. And he has not been seen since. Police say he was last seen wearing blue pants and a red jacket, and they're asking …
On our clinical palliative care service at the San Francisco VA we have also observed PTSD symptoms escalating near the end of life. As VJ notes in her essay, many of the medications we use in palliative care can lead to …
New Year's resolutions often focus on improving physical health, but what if you focused on mental health this year? While the culture at large often dismisses mental self-care, in part because of the stigma against those facing …
They treat depression as if it were caused by a chemical imbalance: Pump in more of one key ingredient, or sop up another, and you will have fixed the problem. Beck_BR-2 Prepared: One day, soldiers heading into combat could be … “I really do think stress is to mental illness as cigarettes are to heart disease,” says Gerard Sanacora, the psychiatry professor running the ketamine trial at Yale. The theory describes stress grinding down individual neurons gradually, as …
Depression is the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 30 percent of Americans at some point in their lives. But despite half a century of research, ubiquitous advertising, and blockbuster sales, …
