Of the 4 million prisoners released each year, 23 percent have suffered from major depressive disorder. Due to resource shortages, many go without adequate treatment while in prison. Oftenti... Read more
PSYCHEDELIC drugs like LSD and magic mushrooms should be made legal as banning them is “against human rights”, scientists have said Researchers say the drugs are much less harmfu... Read more
JAMA Viewpoint Characterizes Current Model for Treating Mentally Ill as “Ethically Unacceptable and Financially Costly” As the United States population has doubled since 1955, th... Read more
NEW TAU TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES PROFESSIONALS WITH IMMEDIATE INSIGHT INTO BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS OF PATIENTS Mental illness accounts for 90 percent of all reported suicides and places the largest b... Read more
Peptide holds promise of new therapeutic approach A nasal spray that delivers a peptide to treat depression holds promise as a potential alternative therapeutic approach, research from the C... Read more
“Gamifying psychological interventions successfully could revolutionize how we treat mental illness and how we view our own mental health.” Playing a science-based mobile gaming app fo... Read more
A new analysis by Oregon State University researchers of California’s mental health system finds that comprehensive, community-based mental health programs are helping people with serious me... Read more
“This is the first comprehensive treatment specifically for children with HFASDs to be found effective in two randomized trials.” In a second randomized clinical trial, researchers at the In... Read more
There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about autism. Simply put, it is a physical disorder associated with brain biology and chemistry that impairs an individual’s social and communi... Read more
Phone therapy also increases access and potentially decreases costs. A new study reveals that cognitive therapy over the phone is just as effective as meeting face-to-face. The research was... Read more
In 2009, a startup known as Breakthrough announced it would make it cheap and easy for people to receive confidential counseling on the web. Three years later, with the upholding of healthca... Read more