May 2nd, 2013

An international team of researchers has determined that child abuse leaves a distinct change in biological pathways.
Such discoveries have the ...
May 1st, 2013

Improving access, enhancing quality and lowering the costs of health care services is a central tenet to health care reform.
Policymakers and providers believe health ...
May 1st, 2013

A new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests Americans are overdiagnosed and overtreated for depression.
Researchers examined adults with depression identified by ...
April 22nd, 2013

Use of complementary and alternative (CAM) treatment strategies has become a recognized option for many medical and mental conditions.
For chronic illness, CAM is often blended with traditional ...
April 20th, 2013

Young people with a high risk of developing psychosis could “significantly reduce” their chances of developing a full-blown psychotic illness by getting early access to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), according ...
April 19th, 2013

Provocative new research now suggests that a particular style of thinking that makes people vulnerable to depression can influence others, increasing their symptoms of ...
April 18th, 2013

Recent military conflicts have resulted in a dramatic increase in post-traumatic stress disorder among returning soldiers. Now, new research suggests a mindfulness-based ...
April 15th, 2013

New clinical research suggests most people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) fail to receive evidence-based psychotherapy interventions.
Experts report that PTSD affects nearly ...
April 14th, 2013

For OCD patients, taking the antipsychotic drug risperidone (Risperdal) as an add-on drug is no more effective than ...
April 14th, 2013

When the parent of a child with cancer has already experienced a traumatic life event prior to hearing of the child’s cancer diagnosis, he ...