Children who play video games for more than three hours a day are more likely to be hyperactive, get involved in fights and not be interested in school, says a new study. It examined the effects of different types of games and time spent...
Experiences of loneliness and social isolation can lead to increased health care use among older adults, according to new research from the University of Georgia College of Public Health. The study, published online in the American Journal of...
Social equity should be something to work toward for its own sake, but in case public officials needed extra motivation, it's also been tied to prolonged economic growth. A recent report by the International Monetary Fund found that more...
Electroconvulsive therapy remains a powerful and fast-acting salve for patients whose depression doesn't yield to lesser treatments, and now researchers believe they know why: A new study finds that shocking the brain induces structural changes...
Researchers at MIT and Northwestern University have developed a new peer-to-peer networking tool that enables sufferers of anxiety and depression to build online support communities and practice therapeutic techniques. In a study involving 166...
In the summer of 2011, July 22nd to be exact, I took an interim position at a school as the Director, while the school board started a search for a permanent director. At the time I was not willing to make a permanent commitment to the school in...
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Twenty years ago, when I began my healing journey, I only knew one thing about shame: I would do whatever it took to protect myself from the shame of being sexually abused as a child. Since then, I’ve eliminated that shame and dedicated my...
"Most of us nod our heads when we hear that we are the product of our experiences early in life. But do we really know what that means? What would you do if you knew that you could change the likelihood that someone would experience lifelong...
Jeanni McCarty, a nurse and native of this threadbare city of 4,200, hurried up and down Main Street in Saturday’s bright sun, handing out stacks of fliers to any business that would take them. They were announcing a hastily planned...
The National Institute of Mental Health has unveiled a five-year strategic plan emphasizing research it hopes will ultimately give clinicians a better understanding of what mental illness looks like inside the brain — before a patient...
The San Antonio police’s strategy for responding to calls involving people who are mentally ill is being hailed as a national model amid rising anger over police brutality toward and high incarceration rates of people with mental health...
Even a careful psychiatric examination of the co-pilot involved in last week's Germanwings jetliner crash probably would not have revealed whether he intended to kill himself, researchers say. "As a field, we're not very good at accurately...
"When you have a 10-year-old who weighs 160 pounds walk into your examining room, you know it's not just the act of overeating at the core of that problem," says Rosemary Fernandez Stein, MD . "It's a bigger behavioral issue. And that means...
It was nearly dawn on October 20, 2012, when Elisa Lopez hopped on the 4 train downtown from the Bronx* to head to her boyfriend's apartment. Lulled by the subway's rock and rumble, she fell asleep, head cradled by the Plexiglas divider between...