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At Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco Medical Center, Dr. Mason Turner, chief of psychiatry, said there was a fourfold increase in psychiatric admissions at his hospital during August, with roughly 60%...

By John Whitesides, Political CorrespondentNASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama battled over taxes and the best way to help struggling middle-class workers...

Gamblers are motivated to seek help only in a crisis involving financial loss or hardship, often accompanied by psychological distress, according to a two-year research project.

Wondering if your blues are something serious? On Friday, National Depression Screening Day, Utahns can receive a free screening in Draper at Management Systems, 12660 S. Fort Street. The event is ope...

Amid signs the credit crisis is spilling into the broader economy, a monthly barometer of Utah small-business conditions is at its lowest point since 2001, Zions Bank said Tuesday. "By definition, i...

Washington, October 8 : A team of Canadian psychologists has created a personality inventory that can help detect people who can excel in academic and creative domains, even when respondents are trying hard to fake their answers.

The murder-suicide of a Los Angeles financial manager who shot dead five members of his family before killing himself has highlighted the psychological toll of the economic meltdown. The bodies of Ka...

Washington, Oct 8 : Individuals who engage in compassion meditation may benefit by reductions in inflammatory and behavioral responses to psychological stress, a new study has found.

This study examined whether women raise their voice pitch during ovulation. Higher pitch is more attractive and more feminine. Researchers recorded voices of 69 women during two phases of their ovulatory cycle: once when fertility was low and once near ovulation (confirmed using hormone tests). The closer women were to ovulation, the more they raised their pitch.

10/08/2008 Clayton — The father of a teenage girl says in a lawsuit that a cyber bully so unnerved her with online taunts that she ended up admitted to a mental health clinic. The 16-year-ol...