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Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 00:00 CDT A $10 million federal grant will allow the University of Pittsburgh to establish a new center for studying schizophrenia, officials announced today. T...

The shooting rampage that left six dead Tuesday in Skagit County is the latest tragic incident involving a person with apparent mental illness who didn't get treatment in time to prevent violence. Si...

TAMPA - A federal agency has approved Tampa General Hospital's plan to improve patient safety in its psychiatric ward, reducing the threat the hospital would lose tens of millions of dollars in Medica...

Psychiatric service dog Bipolar disorder is a common, severe mood disorder involving episodes of mania and depression, according to background information in the article. Other than a family history o...

A newly-identified brain receptor that stimulates growth in adolescence but whose expression is stunted in schizophrenics may hold the key to treating this dreaded disease.

Humans live in societies consisting of a number of levels, from core social groups of 3-5 close relatives termed support cliques to larger, looser aggregations such as tribes that contain over 1000 individuals. Recent research has shown that these networks have a consistent structure; each subsequent level of the networks is 3-4 times the size of the preceding smaller grouping level.

According to new research led by John Updegraff, a Kent State University professor, individuals who are able to quickly make sense of collective traumas such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks cope better in the long run.

A sudden and dramatic increase in pediatric suicides may reflect an emerging trend rather than a single-year anomaly. That's the conclusion of new suicide research, conducted at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's hospital and published in the September 3rd issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), which looked at pediatric suicide trends over a 10-year period. Following a decade of steady decline, the suicide rate among U.S.

BioMedEcon Group, a leading provider of health economics and outcomes research, presented findings of a unique nine-year retrospective claims analysis that compared the per-patient, median healthcare costs of newly-diagnosed patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to matched patients with depression. The study, supported by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc., was presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) 21st Congress on Sept. 1 in Barcelona, Spain.

Posted on: Thursday, 4 September 2008, 06:00 CDT By Marilyn Elias Parents of about 15% of kids spoke to School staff or health care providers about their children's emotional and behavior problems in...