A drug destined for the scrap heap has been rescued by Oxford scientists, who may have found it a new role in treating bipolar disorder. A team from Oxford University, led by Dr Grant Churchill and Dr Sridhar Vasudevan of …
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Call for greater focus on mental health care for expectant mothers …
Experts have called for basic checks about expectant mothers' previous mental health problems after a new report showed there has been no significant change in the number of indirect maternal deaths for more than a …
Neurochemical Imbalance Linked with Susceptibility to PTSD …
Prior research has shown that people with PTSD have altered brain anatomy and function. In the new study, researchers discovered people with PTSD have an imbalance between two neurochemical signalling systems of the …
Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America
A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …
Lower availability of omega-3 fatty acids associated with bipolar …
People with bipolar disorder have lower levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids that cross the blood-brain barrier than people who do not, according to researchers from Penn State College of Medicine and the National Institutes …