(BPT) – This article was sponsored and developed by Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. Mental health issues impact many families in the country. One in five adults in the U.S. experiences a mental health ...

One of Us, run by Denmark’s health ministry, works with people with mental health conditions to share their stories in ...

Debra Manetta is a writer and certified life coach in New Rochelle, N.Y., and the sibling of a brother who lived with schizophrenia. She also brings experience as a parent of a child with ...

Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood mental health disorders in our communities. Often dismissed as witchcraft or demonic possession, the condition silently affects hundreds of thousands of ...

People with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder die on average 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population. The main causes of this are cardiovascular and ...

Progress in addressing mental health is notoriously slow and mostly incremental. Breakthrough treatments tend to be rare, and ...

A simple cheek swab could one day provide a quick and noninvasive diagnostic test for schizophrenia. A new study published in ...

While travelling on a series of national speaking engagements for the “Take Back Your Health Tour,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently made a remarkable claim. At the ...

There is such a thing as mental health, but it is not the same for everyone. It is a subjective good that depends on a person’s own standards.

It probably comes as no surprise to readers of Psychology Today that schizophrenia, arguably the most serious of mental illnesses, imposes tremendous costs on society. A recent article in the Journal ...

Could schizophrenia explain Thamsanqa Jantjie’s bizarre behavior? “I don’t remember any of this at all,” Jantjie told the Associated Press when a reporter showed him video footage of him signing at ...

Dr. Lief, of the psychiatric department of the Tulane University School of Medicine, conducting a psychoanalysis on a patient suffering from a compulsion neurosis in this scene from a two part ...