Pfizer admitted that one of its divisions illegally marketed its anticonvulsant medication Neurontin (gabapentin) to doctors for uses unapproved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Documents filed in Franklin v. ... Read More

Canada and some U.S. states allow marijuana to be prescribed under certain circumstances. Persons diagnosed with schizophrenia may want to avoid marijuana, though, since it can create problems for ... Read More

Bristol-Myers Squibb announced today that it is pulling its antidepressant Serzone (nefazodone) from the U.S. market. The controversial antidepressant has already been banned from sale in many countries because of ... Read More

Patients taking mood stabilizers for bipolar disorder sometimes find themselves gaining weight. Some of the newer mood stabilizers can cause weight gain. A new study found that iamotrigine, marketed ... Read More

Feeling down but not necessarily depressed? Phylameana lila Desy, About's Guide to Holistic Healing has some suggestions: Ten Healthy Actions to Help Get Yourself out of a Funk Also consider ... Read More

Many who have analyzed the shocking pictures of American soldiers torturing prisoners in Iraq have stated that all of us are capable of such behavior. I'm not sure that's true. Studies ... Read More

A study presented to the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting suggests that children born to women who contract the flu during pregnancy may have an increased risk for schizophrenia later ... Read More

Can computer games help you raise your self-esteem? McGill University researchers think that their games can. Researchers in the Department of Psychology at McGill have created computer games that ... Read More

A new U.S. poll estimates that 59 million people (1/4 of the U.S. population) have received some form of mental health treatment in the past two years. Does ... Read More

Californians will have the chance to vote on a proposal to add a 1% tax on the incomes of everyone earning over one million dollars to pay for mental health ... Read More

The U.S. military reported that there have been an unusually high number of suicides among U.S. troops in Iraq during the past year. 24 soldiers have taken their ... Read More