A common variation in genes puts women who are under chronic stress at risk for increased depressive symptoms, but has the exact opposite effect in men.

The total number of records of those disqualified from purchasing guns because of being dangerously mentally ill is less than 20% of the at least 2.6 million such records that ought to be in the system.

Depression is a devastating illness that affects more than 19 million Americans. Despite its prevalence, depression often goes undiagnosed and untreated. Ranking America's Mental Health is a

States with higher rates of residents who lack health insurance have higher rates of depression and suicide.

Findings could help predict risk of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as well as lead to improved diagnostics.

Increasing the number and quality of community services for vulnerable populations, including the mentally ill and developmentally disabled, is one of five key goals of DHR.

Zucker pinpoints many patterns of social dysfunction among individuals with anorexia nervosa.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday by voice vote approved a bill (HR 3992) sponsored by Rep. Robert Scott (D-Va.) that seeks to improve services for prison inmates with mental illnesses, CQ Today reports. The legislation would reauthorize a grant program that provides treatment for inmates with mental illnesses and training for law enforcement officers who handle such inmates.

President Bush signed into law a veterans' suicide prevention bill that will require mental health training for Department of Veterans Affairs staff.

Fourteen percent of Gulf Coast residents reported serious mental illnesses two years after Hurricane Katrina.

House voted to approve a veterans' suicide prevention bill.

Despite strong initial efforts to support the mental health needs of students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many schools have not been able to fulfill students' mental health needs over the long term.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee with a 32-13 vote on Tuesday became the third House committee to approve a measure (HR 1424), sponsored by Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), that would require most health insurers to provide equal levels of coverage for physical and mental illnesses, CQ Today reports. The bill was passed after nine Republican amendments were withdrawn or defeated (Armstrong, CQ Today, 10/16).

Employees who think that mental illness or depression may be an issue for them have new resources to help them.

KineMed presented data demonstrating the ability of an investigational agent to regenerate nerve cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved with cognition and mood. The agent, part of a partnered relationship in indications discovery, also improved performance in a behavioral test in a preclinical model. The findings were disclosed in a presentation titled, "Indications Discovery Using In Vivo Pathways as Targets," at the second annual Drug Repositioning Summit hosted by Cambridge Healthtech Institute in Philadelphia.