I wrote at the beginning of the Andrea Yates retrial about the public opinion shift on mental health that defense attorneys were banking on to get her prison sentence overturned. Wednesday she was ...

As I'm going through the past few months of accumulated email (yes, it's been that kind of summer!), I ran across a submission about a month ago pointing me to a blog entry over at ...

Study suggests TV watching lowers physical activity Not surprising to any American, when you watch TV, you aren't as active and the more you watch, the less active you become. I honestly thought this was ...

The unbelievable popularity of violent video games (first-person shooters, etc) has led many researchers and government officials to be concerned about the psychological effects of playing them. Craig Anderson (Iowa State) has made a career ...

Via The Trouble With Spikol (great mental health blog!): Hungarian mental health stakeholders from the group Sötét Nappalok, Fényes Éjszakák Egyesület (Darkest Days, Brightest Nights Society) are raising bipolar disorder public awareness by riding ...

The number of factors implicated in the growing obestity problem in the United States seems to have no limit. Air conditioning and lack of sleep are the newest buzz areas of concern, and a ...

AP had a story Monday about how being distracted can lower the quality of learned information. They discuss how watching TV while you study is a bad idea. This topic is becomming more widely ...

Someday I'm going to write a nice article about flying with children, tips and suggestions on how to minimize the disturbance to others, distraction techniques, etc. Today's not that day. For the past 6 months or ...

There have been more frequent stories of late about neurosurgical procedures for various mental disorders. The most written about appears to be deep brain stimulation for depression, which is an emerging option for people ...

A challenging new book by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, Going Sane, criticizes the many products, therapies and lifestyle enhancements peddled to consumers as the means to happiness. Even CBT, he argues, is simply the latest ...

The Design for Our Future Selves awards 2006 from the Royal College of Art offered seven awards for ‘An architecture, design or communication project which addresses a social issue or engages with a particular ...

The Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments blog highlights another study indicating the benefits of psychotherapy (CBT) with antidepressants: In the field, it is virtually impossible to prevent those who are recovering from depression from encountering ...