Mental illnesses produce some of the most challenging health problems faced by society, accounting for vast numbers of hospitalizations, disabilities resulting in billions… » »   

In the 19th-century novel Hyperion, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow admonished his hero, unlucky in love, to “take this sorrow to thy heart, and make it… » »   

Schizophrenia and depression by themselves and especially in combination with each other are known to be important risk factors of suicide. An increased risk… » »   

A new European study finds that cognitive behavioral therapy in conjunction with antidepressants does not provide additional benefit to adolescent patients.

The… » »   

A glaring shortfall of current antidepressant medications involves the need to take a drug for a particular length of time (often a month or… » »   

David Harkins, a 55-year-old who needs medication to help with his bipolar disorder, lives with a college student in a private dorm near USF.… » »   

There’s depression, and then there’s double depression.

Sound bad? It is, according to Thomas Joiner, Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor and… » »   

Wendy Whelan, a star of the NYCB since 1991, has thought a lot about longevity. She knows that dancers don’t dance forever. “Will I… » »   

The author examined physician and patient factors related to recognition of depression in depressed medical patients. Medical inpatients over age 50 were systematically identified… » »   

Purpose of review: To review mechanisms by which intervention for childhood mental disorders may exert an influence on mental health and wellbeing in adulthood,… » »