As well as treating Hmong patients, Lo is conducting research to better understand how mental illness is understood in the community — finding that previous efforts to do so had gotten lost in translation. The few psychiatrists …
In general, people with mental disorders tend to die decades earlier than the general population, mostly as a result of preventable and treatable chronic.
According to newly published research, a specialized psychotherapy has been linked to changes in activation patterns in certain areas of the brain in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), suggesting its impact …
Peter von Ziegesar is a New York-based writer who published a memoir in May 2014 about eventually becoming the sole caretaker of his schizophrenic and homeless step-brother. “The Looking Glass Brother is a fairly …
A new report calls attention to cancer in people with mental illness, suggesting that healthcare system and societal factors are just as critical as individual lifestyle factors— linked to smoking and obesity—that lead …
