The antipsychotic drug risperidone (marketed in the U.S. as Risperdal) may be a safe and effective long-term agent for treating severe behavior problems in children with below-average intelligence. ... Read More

The National Institute of Mental Health has weighed-in on the current controversy over SSRI antidepressant use in children. They recommend psychotherapy as the first treatment for depression in younger ... Read More

A lot has been written about the effect of skinny models on eating disorders in women. A recent study suggests that men may be similarly influenced by ads. Researchers exposed ... Read More

Medical and mental health professionals have been slower than many professions to adopt electronic forms of communication. This is likely to change as telemedicine becomes more popular and many ... Read More

A new article published this week in The Lancet suggests that most SSRI antidepressant medications may cause problems when taken by children. The new study looked at both ... Read More

Researchers from the University of Iowa have discovered that a specific gene segment can cause a form of schizophrenia in around 2 percent of caucasians. It also seems that ... Read More

The state of Louisiana may become the second in the U.S. to give prescribing rights to some specially trained psychologists. According to a psychiatry press release, the House voted ... Read More

A couple learns their three babies are all autistic, inspiring a journey to help save the boys from lives of isolation. This Thursday, April 22, “Primetime Thursday” airs a television ... Read More

The blog feeds are working again. Visit this page to read mental health headlines from all over the Internet - and click through to get all the details. ... Read More

A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives reported Friday that it will investigate whether the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully disclosed disagreements among its own scientists over ... Read More

"The Instinct to Heal: Curing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy" by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. is an extraordinary introduction to some of the newest therapies ... Read More

Mark Sichel, LCSW has lived through rifts in his own family. He believes that healing from such rifts starts within. He provides some information in this article, and ... Read More

Because of poorly-funded mental health services in New Jersey an inmate there was murdered by his cellmate earlier this year. The wait for a court-ordered evaluation in New Jersey ... Read More

Around one third of women seeking emergency medical care in some inner city hospitals have suffered domestic violence at some point in their lives. A recent study published in ... Read More

The MSNBC Article begins with "Last week the FDA announced that antidepressants, the very drugs that were supposed to lift patients out of emotional danger, might cause some of them ... Read More

Another study has found that memory is not completely accurate. A Canadian researcher found that fully two thirds of subjects accepted a false grade-school event as having happened to ... Read More

Research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health strongly suggests that some antidepressants work by growing new neurons (brain cells). The study found that blocking the formation of neurons ... Read More