Recent studies cast doubt on whether large-scale mental health interventions are making young people better. Some even suggest they can have a negative effect. By Ellen Barry In recent years, mental ...

Dr. Lief, of the psychiatric department of the Tulane University School of Medicine, conducting a psychoanalysis on a patient suffering from a compulsion neurosis in this scene from a two part ...

We know that TV has the power to change minds on political and social issues. But what if it can change minds about mental health? Two studies, both published Thursday, looked at depictions of mental ...

Progress in addressing mental health is notoriously slow and mostly incremental. Breakthrough treatments tend to be rare, and trained professionals too few to meet the demand for services, which is ...

Dr. Ouyang is an emergency physician and an associate professor at Columbia University. “Do you think my symptoms could be from stress?” This is a question more and more of my patients have been ...

Just a few weeks after entering the Maryland legislature last year, House Delegate Joe Vogel introduced his first bill. Inspired by the young people he met while campaigning around his Montgomery ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. New studies show that mental health and well-being are ...

THE TICS started when Jessica Huitson was only 12 years old. Over time her condition worsened until she was having whole-body fits and being rushed to hospital. But her local hospital, in Durham, ...

Nick Haslam receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Jesse Tse does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this ...

When a young woman earning her Ph.D. in biostatistics came to see psychiatrist Michael Gandal with symptoms of psychosis, she became the fifth person in her immediate family to be diagnosed with a ...