While a small number of people account for a disproportionately large portion of health services use, heavy users of mental health care have substantially different patterns of health care use than other heavy users of health …
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Local health departments key to expanding mental health care in US
Drexel's professors found that of the 505 local health departments they studied, between 30 and 40 percent provided some form of mental health care services. Additionally, those that provided services were found to be seven …
Brain Wiring Changes Might Help Guard Against Bipolar Disorder …
5, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Naturally occurring brain wiring changes might help prevent bipolar disorder in people who have a high genetic risk for the mental illness, a new study suggests. The discovery about these brain …
Brain Connectivity Changes Can Protect Against Bipolar Disorder …
Naturally occurring changes in brain wiring can help patients at high genetic risk of developing bipolar disorder avert the onset of the illness, according to a new study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at …
Mental Illness: A Smoking Gun | Psychology Today
People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed by police than people without, a new study says.