Privacy & Surveillance

A discourse analysis conducted by sociologists finds problematic assumptions and practices in the field of neurocriminology.

New review ties increased screen time to increasing anxiety and depression among young adults throughout the United States.

Social determinants have been seen to have an equal, if not greater, influence on health as individual behaviors, yet this evidence is largely ignored. Researchers investigate why this is the case.

Dr. Dainius Pūras argues that the status quo in mental health treatment is no longer acceptable and demands political action to promote human rights.

Mental health nurse education supports institutional psychiatric practice in an insufficiently questioning way. Its formal curricula in universities are often undermined by the informal curricula of practice environments. As an institution, mental health nursing pays insufficient attention to both these issues because it is an arguably un-reflexive and rule-following discipline.

A recent editorial, published in BMJ, argues there is an increase in coercive measures in psychiatry that are damaging to individuals diagnosed with mental illness.

A new study finds that mental health apps promote a one-dimensional view of mental health.

Participatory action approaches in bioethics research used to decrease coercion and seclusion in psychiatric treatment.

Facebook altered the news feeds of 689,003 users as part of a massive experiment in "emotional contagion," according to a study published in the...

Researcher Dr. Silke Schwarz highlights how Western psychology’s construction of individual resilience deflects emphasized individual pathology and deflects efforts at structural change.

Researchers present loneliness as a health threat facing a growing number of Americans.

Ethnic minorities and those who migrated during childhood have an elevated risk for psychosis, study finds.

Researchers recommend a ‘politically-informed focus', including activism, when assessing children and designing interventions in areas of chronic political violence.

Researchers found participants were less likely to dehumanize those with whom they disagreed when they heard their voices.

From The New Inquiry: Civil libertarians and liberal privacy advocates often frame government surveillance as a universal threat. But two new books show that surveillance...

New meta-analysis of smartphone based interventions demonstrates small-to-moderate effect.

A study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior found that addictions to mobile devices are linked to anxiety and depression in college students....

For Vice, Hannah Ewens explores how employers react to depression and anxiety in their employees. “In a fair world, employers wouldn't judge you for...

John Albers was completely surprised when police came to his home at midnight and insisted on taking him to a psychiatric hospital, where he...

-Nine out of ten health-related web visits result in personal health information being leaked to third parties.

Last Thursday, the FDA agreed to review a “digital pill,” combining a sensor with the antipsychotic Abilify, in order to track patients’ compliance with drug treatment. Patients taking the tracker pill would also wear a patch, which would receive information and relay it to a mobile device, according to a brief report by BioPharmaDIVE.

Behind the U.S. task force recommendation to screen all children and adults for depression.

The rate of incarceration for lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals is roughly three times that of the general population and they experience significantly higher rates of victimization and mistreatment in prison.

The narratives about Bipolar Disorder promoted by drug companies may influence how those diagnosed understand themselves.

Drugs to treat serious or life-threatening conditions can receive accelerated FDA approval, but may expose patients to increased safety risks and reduced efficacy.