It's not that people with schizophrenia smell bad. Australian researchers have found that people who later develop schizophrenia seem to have difficulty identifying and describing smells. Researchers at Melbourne University ... Read More

Parents of emotionally disturbed and disabled children in Virginia sometimes have to give up custody in order to get help for their children. The state's mental health system is ... Read More

Almost immediately after a wound is opened, the body’s healing agents speed to the scene to begin repairs. New research on surgical patients suggests that stress can hinder this process, ... Read More

Time magazine has an interesting article on the use of psychiatric medications in children and adolsecents. I found it to be more balanced than many similar articles. For example read ... Read More

The Associated Press has reported that an inmate diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia on Indiana's Death Row told a judge he wants the state to execute him for his four ... Read More

A study by Dr. Ilene C. Siegler of Duke University Medical Center has found that hostility during college was related to poorer health 23 years later. According to a Reuters summary ... Read More

California researchers have identified 54 genes in mice that may explain why male and female brains look and function differently. This evidence is then used to support how ... Read More

A privately-funded study of Colorado's mental health system found that it "isn't just broken. It's not just under-funded. It pretty much doesn't exist" - according to the Denver Post. The ... Read More

We know that Depression can unbalance the human immune system. A recent study documented that even mild depression affects the immune system of current or former caregivers - people ... Read More

Scientists are developing a controversial new implant that will deliver small doses of antipsychotic medicines for up to a year to people with schizophrenia. The research raises ethical concerns. ... Read More

New studies suggests that the brain responds to rejection in ways that are very similar to the way that it responds to pain. The research, published in the October ... Read More

Brain injuries can result in a complex set of problems, depending on what parts of the brain are involved. Even after rehab, many brain injured persons have difficulty performing ... Read More

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder - sometimes known as a psychosis - that is usually treated with anti-psychotic medications. It involves a break with reality. Newer atypical antipsychotics such ... Read More

A new research study has shown that sleeping has the important and previously unrecognized benefit of improving people's ability to learn language. Subjects appeared to improve the next ... Read More

The International Committee of the Red Cross has criticized the United States Government for its treatment of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. The Red Cross also complained that the ... Read More

So-called 'technological addictions' have always been controversial. It didn't help when some of the proponents of 'internet addiction' also set-up Online clinics to treat this 'disorder.' Now some ... Read More

Scientists using brain imaging have discovered complex patterns among areas of the brain during the act of forgiving. They then studied patients with schizophrenia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ... Read More

October 10th is World Mental Health Day, an education campaign of the World Federation for Mental Health. This year the focus is on child and adolescent mental health. Read more ... Read More

People often develop a close relationship with their therapist. The two of them have been sitting in a room talking about very personal subjects - often once a week for ... Read More

Psychologists have long considered the similarities between creativity and mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Both involve making connections that others don't make, but obviously they are also different. University of ... Read More

David Peacock is conducting a one man protest against a U.K law that allows authorities to force hospitalization and medication on mental health patients. Peacock is holding his protest ... Read More

A recent Australian study found that many people who develop symptoms of schizophrenia when they are 50 years of age or older decline rapidly into dementia. There is ... Read More

The Miciagan Daily recently reported on a nationwide increase in mental health cases on college campuses. They cited a 2001 Kansas State University study of more than 13,000 students. Most ... Read More