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New data shows that calls to US poison control centers have increased significantly for children taking stimulant ADHD drugs.

New study finds that intensive prolonged exposure is a promising treatment option for individuals with multiple trauma experiences.

Of course one wishes for an easy answer, but the things that conspire to drive a person over the edge are too numerous and varied ever to point and say, it was this one; one can never really be so certain. No one can say it wasn’t that one, or that it wasn’t really all of those together, or that, when it came my own turn for “insanity,” I wasn’t standing halfway over the edge already, waiting for gravity to kick in and for me to fall.

A new study examines the extent to which patterns in prescription drug misuse and substance use disorder symptoms can be predicted by education level

$24,000 later and no one knew what was wrong with me. They sent me home with a bag of pills. After being in the hospital, I developed a fear and mistrust of doctors. My general practitioner suggested antidepressants. More pills. It was all they could recommend. I wouldn’t take them. My anxiety worsened. I was obsessed with the idea that if I slept, I would die. So, I stayed awake as much as I could. For an entire year, this was how I lived.

Increased frequency of digital media use can increase symptoms of ADHD among adolescents, study finds.

People who reduced antipsychotic use by tapering were doing just as well after five years as those who continued using the drugs.

Researchers find that valproate decreases brain volume in a region associated with emotion processing across all participants.

New research has found that a childhood ADHD diagnosis is not predictive of adult functioning in boys.

During the past twenty years, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and American psychiatry have adopted a "medicalized" approach to preventing suicide, claiming that antidepressants are protective against suicide. Yet, the suicide rate in the United States has increased 30% since 2000, a time of rising usage of antidepressants. A review of studies of the effects of mental health treatment and antidepressants on suicide reveals why this medicalized approach has not only failed, but pushed suicide rates higher.

New research demonstrates the lasting effects of mindfulness training on stress and wellbeing among university students.

A new review highlights the effects that psychiatric diagnosis has on children and adolescents’ social relationships and views of self.

Research investigates clinicians’ perspectives on best care practices and the complicated realities of providing care in the face of agency limitations and mechanized interventions.

Study of students without an ADHD diagnosis finds that stimulants (Adderall) have little impact on cognitive performance.

My experience is that living in a psychosis forces your brain to "stretch" — you develop extra capacity to handle things. I was pretty much living a normal life, even working some of the time, while having all of my psychotic problems. After the psychoses faded away, I no longer needed to fight monsters, but I still had that extra capacity left. After 11 periods of psychosis, my brain has never worked as well as it does now.

Researchers investigate the first-person experiences of people who disagreed with their psychiatric diagnosis of psychosis.

Researchers parse out factors within urbanicity that leads to risk for psychotic experiences.

A new study suggests needing to appear perfect to others leads to mental health stigma and a higher risk of untreated psychological distress.

Study finds that reduced cortical thickness and brain surface area associated with 'schizophrenia' may result from antipsychotic drug use.

A new study in JAMA Psychiatry found that transcranial magnetic stimulation was no better than placebo for treatment-resistant depression.

Scholars contend that stigma functions as a mechanism of power in analysis of UK Heads Together mental health campaign.

With the increasing medicalization of depression, and as more and more physicians see the treatment of depression as falling under their purview, it is imperative to distinguish between actual clinical depression and "healthy depression" — the adaptive and expectable responses to distressing life events that signal a need for rethinking one's life and recalibrating one's self-perceptions and emotions.

New research provides evidence that police killings of unarmed Black Americans impact the mental health of Black Americans.

Members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Psychiatry Products division go on the defensive in a new article, responding to concerns about the agency’s approval of digital aripiprazole.

A new study examines the effects of midlife exercise on depression and cardiovascular health later in life.