For people living with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other mental health conditions, ketamine therapy may offer an option when other therapies haven't worked. But if you ...
An internet-based treatment supported by a therapist led to a greater reduction in depressive symptoms among adolescents with depression than standard care, at a lower treatment cost. This is shown in ...
Psychedelics are becoming more clinically relevant, and a slew of recent research has explored the effects of psilocybin in ever-greater detail, revealing that it has the ability to imprint lasting, ...
Major pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly are exploring how psychedelics might be used to treat mental health disorders like PTSD or treatment-resistant depression.
Antipsychotic medicines are prescribed to hundreds of thousands of people with dementia to manage agitation, aggression and other distressing behaviors. A large study of British health records has ...
Grow Therapy (Grow), a leading mental health platform that connects patients with rigorously vetted, insurance-covered therapists, today released new data and introduced Compass Parenting, a framework ...
As public perception and legislation moves, psychedelic drugs could become accepted treatment for people battling a range of mental health disorders.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump announced a new step involving the hallucinogenic compound ibogaine.
If confirmed by the Senate, Heidi Overton—officially revealed Wednesday as President Donald Trump’s choice for FDA commissioner—is expected to be a boon for developers of psychedelic therapeutics and ...
A landmark five-year study by Monash University has found psychedelics reorganise brain patterns, giving clinicians powerful new insights into their therapeutic potential.
We tend to think of panic as affecting the mind, and while it can often begin there, it does not take long for it to move into the body and affect virtually every physical system.
Gloria Samuel Karuri, a distinguished Clinical Psychologist, university professor and mental health advocate from Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau ...
A landmark five-year study by Monash University has found psychedelics reorganize brain patterns, giving clinicians powerful new insights into their therapeutic potential.
Psychedelics are inherently chaotic drugs, dissolving the boundary between self and surrounds by sowing discord in the brain.
A 2021 paper on the ethics of psychedelic-assisted therapy has carried a publisher-issued Expression of Concern since 12 March 2026, more than twelve months after the request that prompted it — and as ...
Trump announced that the University of Miami made an application to the FDA to obtain permission to administer ibogaine in clinical trials.
Mention psychotherapy and many people picture a familiar movie scene: someone lying on a couch, talking about their childhood, while a therapist sits behind them taking notes.
A landmark global study including University of North Carolina eating disorder expert Cynthia Bulik, Ph.D., FAED, has, for the first time, mapped and ...
Bredenkamp’s Baby Brunch podcast this week – she and Clinical Psychologist Janine Boulle look at how parents can resolve conflict.
Pregnancy isn’t always a positive body image journey. Gynaecologist explains the risk of new eating disorders. | Health ...
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