Do you exercise while listening to music? A new study has found that working out to music may give you a cognitive boost. Listening to music while exercising helped cardiac ... Read More

New research published in the journal Brain suggests that brain scans may someday be able to screen for schizophrenia before it develops. The researchers reported that scanning found "subtle abnormalities" in ... Read More

A new study of 2,905 adults found that people who reported inadequate parental support while growing up are likely to have poorer health as adults. People who reported that they had ... Read More

A new study of almost 200 patients diagnosed with hypochondria found that cognitive behavioral psychotherapy helped many of them. Patients with this disorder are convinced that they suffer ... Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally responded to concerns that some antidepressants may increase suicidal behavior. The regulatory agency is advising clinicians, patients, families and caregivers of ... Read More

A consumer advocacy group sued the United States government last week, asking it to remove the antidepressant Serzone from the market. Serzone can cause liver failure and it is ... Read More

Michael G. Rayel, M.D. reports that countless numbers of patients and their family members have asked him about the difference between manic ­depression (bipolar disorder) and major depression. He ... Read More

U.S. states continue to look for ways to cut budgets in lean times. Mental health care is not immune to such cuts. State-funded mental health treatment occurs less ... Read More

An Australian study has found that vitamin D consumption by boys in the first year of life may help prevent schizophrenia in men. No similar pattern was found for ... Read More

New research, shows that subconscious, implicit bias can emerge causing even well-meaning whites to look at identical facial expressions of African Americans and European Americans and see greater ... Read More

Adolescent sexual abstinence pledges are popular in some circles in the United States. A Columbia University study suggests that such pledges are rarely translated into behavior. 88% of ... Read More

A new literature review suggests that combining two antipsychotic medications may help people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder who don't respond to single medications. The review suggests that these combinations of ... Read More

In Generalized Anxiety Disorder a person has a specific fear that has become generalized to cover many different areas (family, work, school), and the person finds it difficult to control ... Read More

A new University of Washington study has found several factors that appear to prevent aggressive 15 year olds from becoming violent 18 year olds. The adolescents who attended ... Read More

Mental health care can be expensive. It's easy to pay over $100 for an hour of psychotherapy. Resources are also available for those who can't afford such prices. ... Read More

The Treatment Advocacy Center is a U.S. nonprofit agency "working to eliminate barriers to timely treatment of severe mental illness." They have a number of excellent resources addressing these ... Read More