Central New York receives a federal grant to train pediatricians and family physicians to treat child mental health problems. The grant provides training by psychiatrists to physicians as well as nurses and other medical staff. Parents ...

A grand unified theory of YouTube and MySpace from Slate Paul Boutin over at Slate believes he's on to something about what makes a popular Web 2.0 site or service succeed over others: I was skeptical ...

According to researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and Brown University’s Butler Hospital, deep brain stimulation (DBS) may be the next potentially effective and revolutionary treatment for people with depression. The study, Deep Brain Stimulation for the ...

Despite Conflicts, Drug Judges Continue to Vote Yea or Nay The bad news: the FDA doesn't care that professionals may have ties to the industries or drugs they're asked to consult about. The good news: it ...

Bipolar Disorder and the Brain is a look at neuroscience research and bipolar disorders. The Society for Neuroscience publishes a monthly newsletter called Brain Briefings aimed at highlighting neuroscience for the layperson. Sign ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed an amendment (H.R. 609) that allows child and adolescent mental health professionals to be eligible for loan forgiveness. NAMI (National Association for the Mentally Ill) applauds ...

As prisons become mental hospitals, this has major implications. Mind Hacks reports on executions of psychotic prisoners: US Judge Wayne Salvant has ordered that Steven Kenneth Staley, a death-row inmate who is so ...

Women fret about their bodies every 15 minutes These results are not suprising, as we've long known that women have more body image issues than men do. It is the reason that eating disorders ...

Stress may cause depression While not untrue in terms that stress can indeed contribute to the cause (or be the primary) cause of depression in some individuals, drug treatments affecting this issue are many years ...

Dr. Tom Ferguson has passed away. A man I've known for many years, I met Tom back in the early 1990's because we were both thinking about how ...

The SAMHSA Resource Center to Address Discrimination and Stigma Associated With Mental Illness invites you to participate in a free online training teleconference titled, "Self-disclosure: The Public and Personal Effects of Revealing Mental Health ...

The National Institute of Mental Health reports that the use of stimulants for children with ADHD has not increased significantly in recent years, in contrast to popular opinion about over-prescription. Although there was an increase between ...