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Children and young adults who start antidepressant therapy at high doses, rather than the "modal" [average or typical] prescribed doses, appear to be at greater risk for suicidal behavior during......

New research from Washington State University reveals how youth who work with horses experience a substantial reduction in stress - and the evidence lies in kids' saliva....

Having a normal conversation may seem nerve-wracking ...

Seafood is rich in PUFAs, which have been shown to be beneficial for brain health. According to new research, not eating enough fish could increase the risk of cognitive decline....

Marital stress may make people more vulnerable to depression, according to a recent study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their colleagues....

Almost half of all homeless men who took part in a study by St. Michael's Hospital had suffered at least one traumatic brain injury in their life and 87 per cent of those injuries occurred before the......

Dialysis patients with more muscle mass had better scores on a 6-minute walking test as well as better scores on physical and mental health questionnaires in a study appearing in an upcoming issue of......

More than half of parents said the drugs are helpful....

Social connections lessen loneliness, especially for older adults living alone, researcher says....

Anxiety often goes hand in hand with attention disorder, too....

New research from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine finds that the more years of education a person has, the better they may be able to recover from traumatic brain injury....

Investigators from UT Southwestern have discovered how a natural antidepressant hormone works in the brain and have uncovered a neuroprotective drug that could treat depression....

Almost one-third of adults in Canada have experienced child abuse - physical abuse, sexual abuse or exposure to intimate partner (parents, step-parents or guardians) violence in their home....

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that activating neurons linked to stress-induced depression may actually increase resilience to the condition....

Study links traumatic brain injury in adolescents to raised risk of suicide, becoming victims or perpetrators of bullying, and other harmful behavior....

Teenagers who have suffered a traumatic brain injury such as a concussion are at "significantly greater odds" of attempting suicide, being bullied and engaging in a variety of high risk behaviours, a......

Numerous studies have suggested that using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter can affect mental health and well-being. We look at the evidence....

Research on children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in South Africa may provide insight on how to identify and help children with emotional behavior issues in other areas of the world, which may have limited......

The benefits of incorporating approaches from positive psychology into existing understandings of mental health problems have recently been promoted by several policy development in UK....

The more life-threatening events that workers employed by military faced, the more anxiety, anger they felt....