What few people, regardless of their politics, ever think to ask is: What is a “mental disorder”? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), “the bible” of the American ...

“I can’t even speak about the real horrors of my situation, because I could be put in the hospital,” said Claire Brosseau Claire Brosseau has spent 34 years living with a number of mental illnesses ...

Advocacy groups like Arizona Mad Moms argue that many violent incidents are preventable tragedies resulting from an ineffective mental health system. While people with treated mental illness are not ...

Researchers studying people with major psychiatric disorders found that drinking up to four cups of coffee a day is associated with longer telomeres. This suggests a potential slowing of biological ...

Medicaid’s Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) rule bars federal funding for psychiatric facilities with more than 16 beds, but findings indicate that state waivers allowing treatment of serious ...

The murders of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, allegedly by their son Nick, are tragic examples of a health care system and a society that fail to grasp the reality of untreated mental illness (“Rob ...

Eleven years ago, at just 12 years old, Morgan Geiser stabbed a classmate under what she believed was the order of the internet creation 'Slender Man.' The survivor experienced near-fatal injuries.

Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness. The GRIN2A gene regulates communication between neurons by producing the ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – something previously believed to be the result of several mutations working ...

Most people think the hardest part of a mental health crisis is the illness itself. In my case that would entail the acute experience of psychotic depression. And it is often true that acute mental ...

The sharp rise in mental health diagnoses among young people has ignited a polarizing debate. Many identify global upheavals as the source of the surge in mental illness — Covid-19, social media, ...