Mind: Brought on by Darkness, Disorder Needs Light
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More than winter blahs, seasonal depression is recognized and treatable.
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New research suggests that schizophrenics process information at a lower frequency than healthy people, almost as if their minds were filled with bad connections.
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Patients in a minimally conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings from a small study suggest.
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Psychopaths are not a lost cause, one scientist argues. They simply suffer from a learning disability, and proper treatment could save society lots of pain and suffering. By Suzanne Leigh.
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Noted academic Elyn Saks hid her illness for years. Now in a new book she opens up about what it's like to have a severe mental illness
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CHICAGO/LONDON  - Variations in a gene helped shield adults who had endured child abuse from becoming depressed as adults, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that helps explain how nature and nurture give rise to mental illness.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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Patients with chronic pain disorders, such as fibromyalgia, appear to have abnormalities in the self-monitoring mechanism that allows the discrimination of internally produced versus externally produced stimuli, new research shows.
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To slow the progress of the dread disease, doctors plant electrodes deep in my brain. Then they turn on the juice. By Steven Gulie from Wired magazine.
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Relying on people to show up at a specific data center by a certain time to execute a recovery plan in the middle of a crisis reveals a certain lack of foresight. Consider an alternative -- keeping the lights on.
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U.S. researchers said on Wednesday   they had identified an "on-off" switch in the brain that   controls the emotional response to fear, and said it might some   day be manipulated to help patients with anxiety disorders.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.
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Our position is: State must find a way to provide better support for families of the mentally ill. Pamela Wohlhieter says being the mother of a son with paranoid schizophrenia often feels like crawling out of a &quot;bottomless pit.
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AN Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have revealed that physical symptoms are nearly as common as emotional ones in patients suffering from depression.
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Licensed counselor Joyce Gatson calls clinical depression &quot;the common cold of mental illness,&quot; and it&#39;s an apt analogy in more ways than one.
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Despite the great progress being made in neuroscience, we still donât have a clear picture of the brain mechanisms underlying most mental illnesses.
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While attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is widely perceived as a children&#39;s disorder, many adults struggle with it, too.