They’re not charged with a crime, but these patients still end up in jumpsuits and solitary. By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, Ashley Nerbovig.

Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen goes straight for the gut with three surprising mind-gut connections.

Advice to get you over the hurdles holding you back.

It’s not that they can’t consider other people’s perspectives. It’s that they don’t do so automatically.

For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms. By Susie Neilson.

Simon Baron-Cohen absorbs the grave revelations in a study on a paediatrician enmeshed in autism’s history.

He heard about the drug trial from a friend in Switzerland and decided it was worth volunteering, even if it meant long, painful train journeys from his native Austria and the real possibility of a mental meltdown. He didn’t have much time, after all, and traditional medicine had done nothing to relieve his degenerative spine condition.

Lithium, one of the oldest and most widely used drugs to treat neuropsychiatric illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, has a serious drawback -- toxicity. In a continued effort to find a safer form of lithium, researchers have discovered that lithium salicylate, an alternative salt form, might be the answer.

A new test should help doctors to decrease the risk of suicidality in patients treated with antidepressants who show certain gene markers. Researchers plan to launch the test immediately as a laboratory developed test. In addition, clinical studies in support of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration submission for market clearance, CE marking and reimbursement will be initiated.

Only one third of individuals identified as being at clinical high risk for psychosis actually convert to a psychotic disorder within a three-year follow-up period. This risk assessment is based on the presence of sub-threshold psychotic-like symptoms. Thus, clinical symptom criteria alone do not predict future psychosis risk with sufficient accuracy to justify aggressive early intervention, especially with medications such as antipsychotics that produce significant side effects.

PTSD has come to signify the moral, social and political suffering of war. But not all suffering is a mental illness

A new study finds that deliberately considering the perspectives of others can help conceited people feel empathy.

CNN's Anderson Cooper tries to go through a normal day using a schizophrenia simulator.

Under court pressure to improve psychiatric care for deeply disturbed death row inmates, state officials are moving quickly to open a 40-bed hospital at San Quentin prison to house them. The court-appointed monitor of mental health care in California's prison system reported to judges Tuesday that about three dozen men on death row are so mentally ill that they require inpatient care, with 24-hour nursing.

His family wants to help but he can’t be involuntarily committed. They can only hope he gets better — or worse.

A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness. 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced plans for a cutting-edge technology-based research program to develop a tiny, implanted chip in the skull to treat psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, PTSD and major depression.

It’s hard to listen to a psychiatrist who sounds so broken. I expect a mental-health provider to seem healthy, detached. But even over the phone, the weariness in Dr. Brown’s voice is palpable. “This is what we do when people die,” he says. “Even if they die an expected death, it seems to be human nature to go back over [it]. What should I have said that I didn't, or shouldn’t have said that I did? Could I have done more or did I do too much? This seems to be a part of the grieving process.

Eddie Ray Routh would say whatever it took to avoid going to jail, a medical expert testified Friday. Routh, 27, is charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. The men took him to Rough Creek Lodge and Resort hoping to help him with post-traumatic stress disorder. Experts have said they don’t believe Routh suffered from PTSD.

The situation, as it stood, couldn't have looked much worse. A man had cornered a tearful, terrified woman in the lobby of a block of flats and wouldn't let her leave. If another person entered at that moment, the woman would say the man was a complete stranger. She'd say she had no recollection of how she'd got here. The third person would – quite reasonably – deduce that, in all probability, the man had drugged the woman and, if they had a shred of human decency...

In a deadly corner of Baghdad, nearly every resident has witnessed the horrors of war. One dedicated doctor risks his life—and his own sanity—to help those who need it most.

The finding could mean recollections are more enduring than expected and disrupt plans for PTSD treatments

Adults over 50 who have persistent symptoms of depression may have twice the risk of stroke as those who do not, according to a new study.

Mike Jay reviews “The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon: Towards a Political History of Madness” by Laure Murat

Members of the multiplicity community insist that they're healthy, happy, and even normal—they just have up to hundreds of personalities contained within one body.

A team of scientists are giving hallucinogens to smoking addicts to help them cut the habit. Tim Maughan visited the lab where this surprising research is emerging.

When should people with a non-terminal illness be helped to die? By Rachel Aviv.

Neuroscientists find that artificially stimulating a positive memory can cause mice to snap out of depression-like behaviour.

Meet the scientists and DIY enthusiasts firing electricity to their brains to see what happens next. By Lucy Jones.

In 2011 Callie Quinn moved from Austin to Chile to experience a new way of life. Then she met a charming fellow foreigner—and almost lost everything.  

TMS and other ‘electro-cures’ for depression are becoming popular in spite of limited demonstrated effectiveness

This is a lobotomy updated for the 21st century: burning away highly specified parts of the brain to treat mental illnesses.

My 20-year struggle with bipolar disorder.

Can brain-scanning help save Freudian psychoanalysis?

Drugs intended to treat psychosis are also used to treat behavioral problems in children with ADHD. Less risky behavioral treatments and medications should be the first choice, researchers say.