I'm not a native New Englander, as anyone who talks to me for more than 3 minutes knows. I've lived in many different and diverse areas of the country, so it's given me a flavor ...

The New York Times on Sunday examined how mental health practitioners "are feeling an economic pinch, partly because of insurance reimbursement schedules that they say have not kept pace with their expenses." The Times ...

Researchers have developed a simple three-question screening test to sort bipolar depression from unipolar depression. There are important reasons to distinguish between the two, such as that different treatments are necessary, the symptoms of bipolar depression ...

Quote of the day.... Bad tippers, watch out!! Terence Banich had been outed as a bad tipper, and he didn't even know it. He popped up on the cheapskate list at BitterWaitress .com, berated by a ...

A study published in the March American Journal of Psychiatry found a stronger association between schizophrenia and autoimmune diseases than previously suspected. Dr. William W. Eaton, of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and colleagues analyzed ...

A study just released boasts dramatic improvements in ADHD symptoms in children who took fish oil supplements, which contain Omega 3 fatty acids. 94% of the children in the study, aged 12-15, started out with ...

McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web is a great site hosting articles written by John McManamy, a medical journalist who also has bipolar disorder. Among his archives is this story about the prominence of ...

A recent comment in another's blog got me to thinking -- why do people not blink at the cost of consumer goods such as a dishwasher, car, or such, but think twice before coughing up ...

I just wanted to write a quick follow-up to the two studies published earlier this week in the New England Journal of Medicine on the STAR*D research initiative. A lot of the news stories written ...

This month, Britannica released a response (PDF) to an article that appeared in the Dec. 15, 2005 issue of Nature. The one disturbing issue in this response from Britannica (agree, disagree, I don't ...

A research review study by John Bola, assistant professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work, found no solid evidence that untreated early episodes of psychosis cause long-term harm. This ...

Levy: (Some) Attention Must Be Paid! Continuous partial attention is a term to describe a specific phenomenon, which was coined by Linda Stone, a former Apple and Microsoft executive. The phenomenon is familiar to anyone ...