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A new study of 111 doctors in Uganda's Central Region finds that 72 percent have poor mental well-being, with low income, burnout, and depression identified as the key determinants of poor ...
Youth mental health care needs to move from a crisis response to early prevention and intervention. This could be achieved through expanding school-based ‘task sharing’ programmes like EASE-SA, where ...
Former NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip recently announced a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Waltrip, a 3-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and NASCAR Hall of Famer, and hi ...
Happiness, sadness, disgust, surprise, fear, contempt and anger. These are the basic emotions traditionally associated with facial expressions described as universal. As important social signals, ...
The Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Clinical Psychology.
A new study links adult ADHD and genetic risk to mild cognitive impairment and dementia, though experts say lifestyle habits can protect brain health.
Following a recent spate of alleged homicides, Australia is once again confronting the devastating toll of domestic and family violence. What are we getting wrong?
Autism and ADHD traits appear to follow different social paths. In a study of 9,619 Japanese students, autistic traits were linked to later peer problems, while ADHD traits were tied to academic ...
Nashville, Tenn.-based Mental Health Cooperative has held cost growth for its highest-need Medicaid members to less than half the rate of its peers by building its model around one idea: Patients with ...
If depression has a purpose, what is it? At the most general level, we can say that depression is your brain's functional signal that something in your life is not going well and needs more attention.
Depression often looks different in older individuals, and can be accompanied by confusion, memory loss, and even physical pain. Learn more about how to spot the signs.
Kenya’s efforts to strengthen universal health coverage (UHC) could be undermined by a largely overlooked crisis among the very workers expected to deliver healthcare at community level: poor mental ...
Antipsychotics are used to treat schizophrenia, along with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. However, these medications can be associated with hyponatremia, a serious reduction in blood ...
Demand for Czech child psychology centre Kind Place rose tenfold in a week after deals with the first insurers, a goal its founder had pursued for two years.
The Trump administration announced more than $17 million in Rural Health Transformation Program funding Wednesday to expand mental health and substance use disorder services in rural North Carolina.
Key Takeaways An estimated 15.5 million U.S. adults had a current ADHD diagnosis in 2023, and ADHD often occurs alongside other mental health conditions1,2 Overlapping conditions often get missed ...
As recreational ketamine use rises and researchers continue to explore ways the drug could help people in clinical settings, here’s a primer on this drug, its uses and its risks.
Theodore Wagener, PhD, discusses an Ohio State feasibility study testing psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression in patients with non–small cell lung cancer. Theodore Wagener, PhD, founding ...
A new experience-informed commentary argues that Peer Researchers with lived experience of eating disorders can only transform research if recruitment, welfare, power-sharing, training, and funding ...
Harvard’s Alexis Redding discusses how the entire college experience shapes student well-being and what it takes to build a culture of care.
North Carolina is directing more than $17 million from a federal rural health funding pool toward mental health and substance-use care, including behavioral health clinics, mobile crisis teams, opioid ...
Shared family factors, such as genes and upbringing, are likely to explain a large part of the link between high screen use and mental health problems in young people.
Loneliness hits young Australians, aged 15 to 24, harder than any other age group when it comes to their overall physical and mental wellbeing, Monash ...
A new parent survey and research highlight pediatric primary care as a key entry point for children’s behavioral health screening, referral, and care.
June 17|Duration2:48A newly tabled parliamentary report urges the Canadian government to amend the criminal code to indefinitely exclude people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness from ...
Menopause is associated with a distinct pattern of molecular changes linked to brain ageing and later dementia risk.
Psychology is at its most helpful when it can explain something familiar like: how motivation waxes and wanes, how communication derails, how social settings influence behavior, or how people make ...
Workers at A New Tomorrow Treatment Solutions Ltd., an addiction treatment centre in Kamloops, B.C., have joined the (USW). A New Tomorrow provides treatment and recovery programs for youth and ...
In Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing hundreds of thousands from getting bills they can’t pay.
At a time when more than 100 million Americans carry medical debt, it’s easy to get behind a promise of free, or free-ish, no-hassle health care. But turning an inspirational slogan into law gets gnarly.