Mental Health

In an era of evidence-based clinical care, a new study finds that research presented to psychiatrists during their annual meeting is overwhelmingly biased on the positive contributions of new medications .

Minnesota has the second-lowest ratio in the country of school counselors to students, leading some in the profession to contend troubled students are being neglected.

In my last post, I wrote about Ridge Diagnostics and their new blood test that can predict whether a patient qualifies for a DSM-IV diagnosis of depression .

When thousands of psychiatrists attend their field's largest annual meeting each year, the presentations they hear about research into drug treatments report overwhelmingly on positive results.

Canada's transgender community, long plagued by discrimination and bureaucratic obstacles, is now celebrating a series of small but significant victories.

A 5-year-old child with large, dark eyes, full lips and a button nose stares out from the front page of the Washington Post Sunday edition.

Why do we never get around to some items on our To Do list? We need to create a Why Do? list.

Anyone who grew up in a happy family, with loving parents, will probably find it as distant as a moon walk, and impossible to understand.A For some of us who grew up in dysfunctional families, Isabelle Huppert's character Danielle embodies the awful, and real, psychological conflict of a mother who feels no connection with her child.A For those ... (more)

We can't stop the aging process, but there are things we can do to remain attractive to our mates.

The stories of children - sometimes even toddlers - proclaiming that they are transgender seem to be on the rise.

Prescriptions for drugs to treat hyperactivity have soared in a decade with more than 100,000 Kiwi kids now on medication.

Is there anything different about the brains of extraordinary creative geniuses like Michelangelo, Coleridge or Mozart? World renowned psychiatrist and doctor of English Renaissance Literature Dr Nancy Andreasen unravels the 'creative brain' and explores how we can foster creativity in ourselves and throughout our society.

Main Category: Psychology / Psychiatry Also Included In: ADHD ; Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Article Date: 20 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have shown that zebrafish could be used to study the underlying causes of psychiatric disorders.

Gabriella Szatmary, M.D., Ph.D., a physician in Hattiesburg Clinic's neurology department, was recently recertified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Inc.

The Department of State Health Services has prohibited the use of a controversial treatment at its public psychiatric hospitals after officials say they learned that a doctor performed unauthorized research on aggressive patients with serious mental disabilities.

A Montclair Counseling Center , a nonprofit community resource that provided quality affordable mental health care to local residents, closed its doors on March 31, 2012.

Dr. Robert Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, in Princeton, N.J., May 11, 2012.

A video documentary produced by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights international called "Dead Wrong" exposes how devastating-and deadly-psychiatric drugs can be for children and families.

Here's some good news about that much talked about teenage brain. Teenagers who practice mindfulness - a technique that involves focusing on what is happening in the moment and being aware of and accepting of emotions - benefit from increased self-control, healthier relationships, and improved overall well-being. Psychologists at Australia's ... (more)

Weeks after the blogosphere picked up on it, The New York Times ran a story today about Dr.