Allison Van Dusen has a nice writeup of Seasonal Affective Disorder over at Forbes.com: For sufferers, January and February tend to be the months when this form of depression, clinically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder ...

It was hard to miss a story titled "Straighter teeth won't guarantee happiness" if only because the premise sounded pretty strange. Sure enough, scientists in England have spent 20-years studying a variety of aspects ...

My oldest brother has been living with ulcerative colitis for years now. It's one of those chronic medical conditions that can usually be well managed with a healthy lifestyle, eating right, and medications. But ...

The California Literary Review has an in-depth, interesting interview with the latest Sigmund Freud biographer, Peter D. Kramer. You may remember Kramer as the author of the well-known, Listening to Prozac. The ...

Some online self-help communities seem to have been having a hard time of things lately. Last summer, the long-running BrainTalk Communities went offline for nearly 3 months before limping back into existence once we posted ...

A recent article posted on Science Daily.com titled "Social Workers may indirectly experience post-traumatic stress", discusses the impact that post traumatic stress disorder affected clients can have on their social worker. Research conducted ...

It seems logical that if a mother is under significant stress during pregnancy that the child may be at increased risk for some problems. Research is beginning to accumulate that confirms this belief, and ...

There is ongoing debate across the country about the type of insurance coverage that people with psychological disorders receive. For many people, insurance comes up short in paying for complete treatment. Those struggling with eating ...

ACOR, the Association of Cancer Online Resources which serves tens of thousands cancer survivors and people seeking information and emotional support for cancer exchanging over 6,000,000 messages/month, urgently needs your help! A technical catastrophe has caused ...

A report on a study about antidepressants putting the elderly at risk for bone fractures hit the wires earlier this week. Researchers essentially found that older people being treated for depression with SSRIs were ...

People who take medication to treat a mental illness often face opinions and advice from friends (and strangers) whose ignorant ideas about medication come from stigma-reinforcing sources that lack an understanding of the science, evidence-based ...

There are millions of Americans who are not covered for health insurance because they can't afford or their employer doesn't provide it (or some combination of the two). I count myself lucky because I can ...