The documentary was an elegy for all the people — “psychiatric patients” who had died and been buried, perhaps in a cemetery attached to the hospital, perhaps in a nearby field. In essentially ...

For years, pediatricians have faced a growing dilemma. Families increasingly turn to primary care for help with mental health concerns, yet many pediatricians feel underprepared, and child ...

For many adults, anxiety may be the only visible symptom. When it fades, underlying ADHD, which may have been masked for years, finally becomes clear.

Involuntary mental health holds have been one option to ensure someone in crisis, and deemed a danger to themselves, gets ...

For World Sleep Day we’re investigating how nightmares may be your body’s way of alerting you to a serious health problem. Neurologists explain.

MSPs have been debating more than 300 amendments to the bill in a marathon session, which if passed would allow terminally ill adults to seek help to end their lives.

With the Carney Hospital now but a memory, health providers and city officials say Boston residents facing behavioral health crises are still feeling the loss of one of the neighborhood’s primary ...

More than 200 students from Kent County districts and the Kent Career Tech Center explored career opportunities in mental ...

The Bronx has among the highest rates of depression and serious psychological distress in New York City and the fewest mental health providers.

ADHD often looks like “not trying," but the science tells a different story. Here’s what parents should know about the ADHD ...

For over a hundred years, the specter of a schizophrenia diagnosis has frightened patients and their families. Yet it confers no useful meaning for treatment or prognosis.

The world’s largest professional psychiatry organization is preparing for the day when biological indicators help diagnose and treat mental illness.