Mental Health

World mental health support and the effect of stigma and discrimination

Mental health, as with any other aspects of health, can be affected by a range of socioeconomic factors that need to be addressed through comprehensive strategies involving access to preventions, treatments and facilitating recovery as well as raising awareness.

What Is Recovery-Focused Care?

Pollution and Mental Health

What are the Applications of Technology-Based Mental Health Interventions?

Supporting the Mental Health of Minorities

What is Schizoaffective Disorder?

Can Resveratrol Improve Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression?

Mental Health Nursing

Is a Digital Detox the Answer to Technostress?

What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

What is Mindfulness?

Supporting Children with Mental Health Disorders

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Mental Health Disorders, Weight Gain, and Exercise

Mental Health Comorbidities

The Health Effects of Loss and Grief

Mental Health and Cooking

How is Social Media Affecting Mental Health?

What is Psychotherapy?

Treatment Options for Intrusive Thoughts

How is Infant Mental Health Measured?

The Health Risks of Self-Diagnosing Mental Disorders

The Psychological Strain of Chronic Physical Illness

The Effect of Diet on Mental Health

How Do Your Emotions Affect Your Physical Health?

Maternal Immune Activation During Pregnancy

The Impact of Cyberbullying on Mental Health

How Healthy is Your Job?

Digital Nutrition: How Social Media Consumption Affects Our Mental Diet

How Crying Could Actually Boost Your Mood

The Benefits of Nature for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Mental Health in a Digitalized Workplace

What is Social Prescribing?

Forest Bathing for Health: How Nature Nurtures Wellbeing

What are the Health Effects of Poverty?

Investigating the Link between Cleaning and Mental Health

Friluftsliv: The Norwegian Prescription for Health and Happiness

Managing and Reducing Stress

Mental Health Disorders and Children

What are the Current Challenges in Mental Health Disorder Diagnosis?

What is Mental Health First Aid?

What Is Psychopathy?

A Guide to Coping with Change

The Science of Kindness

Incontinence and Mental Health

Analyzing the Stigma Surrounding Mental Health

The Genetics of Schizophrenia

How has the Wellness Industry Changed over the Last Decade?

Importance of a Work-Life Balance

Screen Time and Mental Health

What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?

What are the Health Effects of Watching Television?

Building Resilience: the Neurobiology of Mental Wellbeing

Perfectionism and Depression

The Role of Crisis Teams in Mental Health Management

Supporting Your Mental Health at Work

Déjà vu Experiences and Mental Illness: Is there a Link?

How does Education Affect Mental Health?

What are the Health Effects of Loneliness?

Transforming Your Life Through Positive Thinking

Are Mental Health Issues Increasing?

Digestive Disorders and Mental Health

Mental Health Support Strategies for Healthcare Workers

Mental Health in Humanitarian Settings

What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?

Latest Mental Health News and Research

Deep staff cuts at a little-known federal agency pose trouble for droves of local health programs

A little-known federal agency that sends more than $12 billion annually to support community health centers, addiction treatment services, and workforce initiatives for America's neediest people has been hobbled by the Trump administration's staffing purges.

1 Aug 2025

MRI brain scans help identify effective use of self-guided anxiety app

By understanding differences in how people's brains are wired, clinicians may be able to predict who would benefit from a self-guided anxiety care app, according to a new analysis from a clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators.

31 Jul 2025

FAU experts recommend high-potency statins to reduce LDL cholesterol

There is broad consensus that the overall body of evidence shows lowering LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol provides both statistically significant and clinically meaningful benefits in treating and preventing cardiovascular disease.

31 Jul 2025

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Next on Kennedy’s list? Preventive care and vaccine harm

In his ongoing effort to reshape health policy, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly plans to overhaul two more government entities: the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

31 Jul 2025

$29 million grant funds research on fibrinogen in trauma care

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus will lead a groundbreaking national clinical trial-supported by a $29 million grant from Octapharma-to evaluate whether early replacement of fibrinogen, a critical blood clotting mechanism in the body, can improve outcomes for trauma patients experiencing life-threatening bleeding.

31 Jul 2025

Flooding linked to increased hospitalizations among older adults

New research examining 17 years of data from Medicare hospitalization claims and major flooding events finds increased rates of skin diseases, nervous system diseases, and injuries or poisonings among adults aged 65 and older following major floods.

31 Jul 2025

Novel eye-tracking metrics can help properly identify concussion-related vision disorders

In a new study led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), researchers found that novel eye-tracking metrics can help properly identify concussion-related vision disorders, a common phenomenon among patients with persisting post-concussive symptoms that last more than 28 days after their initial injury.

31 Jul 2025

Thalamic feedback pathway found to tune sensory perception

The cerebral cortex processes sensory information via a complex network of neural connections. How are these signals modulated to refine perception? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified a mechanism by which certain thalamic projections target neurons and modify their excitability.

30 Jul 2025

Eating more ultra-processed food links depression and diabetes

New research links ultra-processed food intake to increased diabetes risk in individuals with depression, highlighting the need for healthier dietary choices.

30 Jul 2025

Tribal groups assert sovereignty as feds crack down on gender-affirming care

At the Two Spirit Conference in northern Nevada in June, Native Americans gathered in support of the LGBTQ+ community amid federal and state rollbacks of transgender protections and gender-affirming health care.

30 Jul 2025

Immigrant kids detained in ‘unsafe and unsanitary’ sites as Trump team seeks to end protections

A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head.

30 Jul 2025

Exercise-based cardiac rehab benefits atrial fibrillation

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation lessens the severity, frequency, and recurrence of the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation, or AF for short, finds a pooled data analysis of the available research, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

30 Jul 2025

Warfarin use not linked to higher brain bleed risk after falls in older adults

There are about 70 million baby boomers in the United States, many now over age 65. As people age, rates of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases rise, leading to more use of blood thinners such as warfarin.

29 Jul 2025

Changing the narrative on hormone-related mood disorders in women

In a wide-ranging Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. David R. Rubinow recounts the serendipitous path that led him to overturn decades of medical assumptions about hormone-related mood disorders in women.

29 Jul 2025

Mexican neuroscientist's journey from exile to schizophrenia research breakthroughs

In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Brain Medicine, Dr. Camilo de la Fuente-Sandoval shares how personal history and scientific passion converged to create groundbreaking advances in schizophrenia treatment prediction.

29 Jul 2025

Researchers map key mechanism for bladder function

Urinary incontinence is a devastating condition affecting over 33 million Americans, according to the National Association for Continence, leading to significant adverse impacts on patients' mental health and quality of life. Disorders of urination are also a key feature of all neurological disorders.

29 Jul 2025

Brain’s blood vessels and immune cells play key role in Alzheimer’s and stroke

The brain's health depends on more than just its neurons. A complex network of blood vessels and immune cells acts as the brain's dedicated guardians-controlling what enters, cleaning up waste, and protecting it from threats by forming the blood-brain barrier.

28 Jul 2025