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New study reveals: 2 in 3 people need more than the current antidepressant benefits to consider them worthwhile.

In this new study, exposure to maternal anxiety in utero also harmed child development.

People with "serious mental illness" who stop taking antipsychotics are more likely to recover, even when accounting for baseline severity.

A new study in Frontiers of Pharmacology finds that antidepressant use during pregnancy is linked to reduced motor skills in children at 2 years...

Peter Lehmann reviews the contribution of antipsychotics to suicide and depression in schizophrenia in the current International Journal of Psychotherapy.  Publications about the intrinsic effects of...

Researchers report that sexual minority adolescents have considered, planned, and attempted suicide substantially more than their heterosexual peers.

Study finds that traditional healers in South Africa, whose services are widely used by the country’s population, perform important suicide prevention work.

Multiple media sources are reporting on new data from the CDC revealing a substantial increase in the suicide rate in the United States between 1999...

In JAMA psychiatry, researchers outline new theories connecting antipsychotic use in people with schizophrenia and increased dementia risk.

The Open Dialogue psychiatric treatment approach is associated with reduced utilization of mental and general health services for Danish youth.

The published literature is misleading, as the negative Xanax trials either went unpublished or were spun to appear positive.

New analysis of post-discharge suicide rates finds estimates 6 times higher than recent studies.

The man who deliberately crashed a Germanwings commercial airliner with 150 passengers aboard was actively in psychiatric treatment at the time, reported the New...

Hearing Voices Network self-help groups are an important resource for coping with voice hearing, study finds.

When the CDC released data revealing an increasing suicide rate in the US, some experts, speaking to major media outlets, speculated that the increase...

A new study suggests that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) may halve the likelihood of re-attempting suicide, for those who have attempted in the past.

Response and remission rates were the same in the drug versus placebo groups, and Lexapro increased suicidality sixfold.

New study finds that people who felt they were coerced into being hospitalized were more likely to attempt suicide later.

Smoking laws and cigarette taxes have strong links to suicide rates, according to psychiatrists from Washington University in St. Louis. Previous studies have presumed...

The New York Times reports that the "baffling" rise in suicide rates in the U.S. military is not correlated to deployment, as is often...

Mark Horowitz and David Taylor provide advice on how to tell the difference between antidepressant withdrawal and depression relapse.

Males taking antidepressants were at 100 times the risk of erectile dysfunction compared with the healthy population and more than three times the risk even after controlling for other variables.

A new study suggests that taking antidepressants impairs empathy, while the experience of depression itself does not.

In a study of people with borderline personality disorder, only ADHD stimulants were associated with a decrease in suicide.

The alternative treatment model of Soteria helps individuals suffering from schizophrenia without relying on medication or coercion.