Mental Health

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)

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THERE will be a lot of deep thinking going on in Hobart next week when the city hosts a major psychiatry conference, which organisers predict will pump millions into the economy.

The trend toward greater awareness and de-stigmatization of mental health problems and treatments will continue.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , long the master reference work in psychiatry, is seriously flawed and needs radical change from its current "field guide" form, according to an essay by two Johns Hopkins psychiatrists published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes.

This photo made available by Andy Beverly shows his son Guillaume Beverly, 15-years-old in Conflans Sainte Honorine, France in May 2012.

When I was researching my book, Coming of Age on Zoloft , a number of psychiatrists pointed out to me that there is no blood test for depression or any other mental illness.

Throughout the world a common category of demon regularly appears in legend.A They call it mara, Lilith, dab tsog, succubus, incubus or old hag.A While the name of the demon that causes the attack changes from culture to culture the activity itself remains a constant.

She's only eight, but Lacey-Mae Mason is already a beauty pageant veteran. She competed in her first one when she was 14 months old.

"LABEL jars, not people" and "stop medicalising the normal symptoms of life" read placards, as hundreds of protesters - including former patients, academics and doctors - gathered to lobby the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting.

Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women's sexualized bodies are on display.