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World Mental Health Day 2015: WHO Wants To Ensure People With …

The World Health Organization dedicates this year's World Mental Health Day to dignity, and what health care systems and communities across the world can do to offer mental health patients dignified care.

A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain – Technology Review

Neurosurgeons hope to treat some of the most intractable mental disorders by putting advanced arrays of electrodes into patients' brains.

Vision And Schizophrenia: Small Blood Vessels In Eyes May Be …

Changes in your eyes, such as the widening of small blood vessels, may predict the onset of schizophrenia.

Toward a new understanding of mental illness

Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a […]