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Publicly funded mental health care for children has improved in the past 25 years, but top officials in more than one out of five states say no child with serious mental disorders receives good care i...

AL-QA'IDA'S first message to Barack Obama two weeks after his election to the US presidency shows a panicked response to his popularity, counter-terrorism experts said today.

LOS ANGELES -- The woman accused of making unauthorized use of MySpace to inflict emotional harm on a 13-year-old girl, who then committed suicide, "fully intended to hurt and prey on Megan Meier...

A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical School, Albert Einstein College of medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately 20 percent. The findings, published in Psychology and health, were based on data drawn from participants who spanned numerous religious denominations. The research was conducted by Eliezer Schnall, Ph.D.

In contrast to recent findings, two of the most common medications used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not appear to cause genetic damage in children who take them as prescribed, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institutes of health (NIH) and Duke University Medical Center.

0 posts Memory Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: MEMY) announced that it has achieved the enrollment goal for its Phase 2 trial of R3487/MEM 3454, its lead alpha-7 nicotinic receptor agonist, in cognitiv...

London, Nov 20 : It may sound bizarre but an African Grey parrot is taking Prozac after suffering from depression following the death of his owner.

? Plans for a $10 million expansion of a Las Vegas psychiatric center for children might have to be scrapped after federal officials raised questions about the project, state officials said Wedne...

Paul Boxer's large-scale study shows conclusive link between media violence and real violence in adolescents. You are what you watch, when it comes to violence in the media and its influence on violent behavior in young people, and a new paper, lead-authored by Rutgers University, Newark, researcher Paul Boxer, provides new evidence that violent media does indeed impact adolescent behavior.

0 posts The British Psychological Society has issued the following statements in response to the government announcement. The British Psychological Society strongly welcomes the announcement today of...