Mental Health Articles:
News on Mental Health and research articles. Information on Mental Health and Mental Disorders.
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Jun 2nd, 2009
Reducing the number of beds available in public psychiatric hospitals is associated with increased suicide rates — and community-based mental health care is often not funded at a level sufficient to help.
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Jun 1st, 2009
Approximately 71,000 adults in Nebraska have a serious mental illness, an often misunderstood but common health condition that causes changes in a person’s thinking, mood and behavior.
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May 23rd, 2009
NIMH is using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide grant support for the completion of a project under way to evaluate the effectiveness of a new training program for telephone crisis counselors at suicide hotline centers.
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May 19th, 2009
There are more than 780,000 children and youth under the age of 18 in the State of Mississippi, and nearly one in five could benefit from short-term mental health treatment through a community health center, school-based or nonprofit therapist, or private practitioner.
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May 16th, 2009
Researchers have identified a particular protein in the brain that serves as a trigger for the body's innate fear response. This discovery suggests a new potential target for the development of new medications aimed at treating anxiety, particularly generalized anxiety disorder, a condition that afflicts millions.
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May 11th, 2009
The province has opened 50 new mental health and addiction treatment beds in south and central Alberta. An additional 10 youth treatment beds will be opened near Rocky Mountain House later this spring, making treatment services more widely available in the province.
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May 8th, 2009
Systems of care -- coordinated networks of community-based mental health services and supports for children and youth with serious mental health challenges -- are able to dramatically improve the academic, behavioral and emotional performance of participating youth.
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May 7th, 2009
Kentuckians Encouraging Youth to Succeed (KEYS) will gather Saturday, May 9, at the Newport Aquarium to emphasize the importance of children’s mental health awareness.
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May 7th, 2009
As the prevalence of stress and stress-related conditions increases and associated treatment costs escalate into the billions of dollars, the newly-created psychological trauma program at Ohio State University Medical Center serves as a resource for local community providers to address the needs of those suffering from untreated emotional trauma.
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Apr 28th, 2009
A new multicenter study involving UCLA and the RAND Corp. has found that perceived racial or ethnic discrimination is not an uncommon experience among fifth-grade students and that it may have a negative effect on their mental health.
