Depression, one of the most prevalent mental health disorders worldwide, is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, ...

A high-profile tragedy reveals the adult mental health crisis facing families nationwide — marked by addiction, isolation, ...

You can live for years with obstructive sleep apnea and never know it. The condition repeatedly narrows your upper airway ...

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Scientists have discovered that a single gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness—something previously thought to stem only from many genes acting together. People with certain variants of this ...

From Pong and Pac-Man to Minecraft and Fortnight, video games have always been a lot of fun. Sometimes, however, gamers become fixated, compulsive or — worse — spiral into a full-blown gaming disorder ...

For Henry Cockburn, the onset of schizophrenia felt like pure common sense. It was February 2002, and the 20-year-old art student had strayed from the University of Brighton to satisfy his desire for ...

Mental health disorders like depression and anxiety are common conditions that affect millions of people in the United States. Importantly, not everyone has the same risk of developing such disorders.

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe. The number of individuals living on the streets in the ...

Background: Since ancient times, and later in the 17th and 18th centuries, scholars have sought to classify mental disorders. However, it wasn’t until the late 1970s, with the work of Spitzer and ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a blueprint that the U.S. can use to expand evidence-based interventions to prevent mental, ...

This study will create a blueprint for a sustainable infrastructure to implement preventive interventions that promote behavioral health. It will also identify funding needs and strategies to support ...