Psychiatric Times

JULY 24, 2025

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Neurotransmitters and mental health

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

The findings highlight the importance of targeting depression at an early age, when symptoms are still changing, experts say. Symptom patterns become more stable across adolescence, with individuals more likely to be persistently depressed or experience no depressive symptoms, while symptoms fluctuate at younger ages. Whalley, Alex S.

Aging and mental health

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 30, 2025

ADHD in Elementary School Age Child: Patient Case 1 EP: 3. Both medications carry important safety considerations including potential for increased suicidal ideation, requiring careful monitoring and education about distinguishing medication-related intrusive thoughts from situational mental health concerns.

Genetics and mental health

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 23, 2025

ADHD in Elementary School Age Child: Patient Case 1 EP: 3. Children from lower-income families face multiple challenges including limited access to prenatal care, inadequate nutrition during pregnancy, and unstable housing situations that disrupt educational continuity. Overview of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder EP: 2.

Genetics and mental health

Psychiatric Times

AUGUST 5, 2025

11 And benzodiazepines do impair balance and increase the risk of falls, but careful recent studies show that they do not increase the risk of hip fractures in old age. Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. He can be reached at dmorehead@tuftsmedicalcenter.org. References 1. Harrington A.

Sleep and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

JUNE 19, 2025

Mental health conditions now account for a staggering 16 percent of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) burden, with disproportionate impacts on young people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Humanitarian imperative New research projects that expand mental health interventions could contribute USD 4.3

Global mental health

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Given her young age and the described alterations in her behavior and cognition, these can be viewed as prodromal symptoms. The DSM-5 task force concluded that there was not enough evidence to justify incorporating APS as an official mental disorder diagnosis in Section II.

Genetics and mental health

Clear Behavioral Health

JULY 18, 2025

Obtaining professional mental health support can be challenging. Not only is there currently a shortage of mental health professionals, but searching for and finding the right one is often a daunting experience. “Artificial intelligence is a promising tool for enhancing mental health care.

Aging and mental health

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

The technology was officially launched at an Open Day in the Department of Psychiatry on June 6. The technology will be used by researchers working across the Departments of Psychiatry, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Experimental Psychology at Oxford.

Genetics and mental health

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Professor Cathy Creswell , from Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and lead for the NIHR ARC OxTV’s mental health across the life course theme, recently visited Chile to establish the project. In February 2023, it was recommended for use in the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Genetics and mental health

Psychiatric Times

JULY 17, 2025

Steven Moffic, MD , Mira Goldstein Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Grandparent-grandchild relationships are often neglected in psychiatric evaluations, despite their potential positive impact on mental health and well-being. Probably at most inquiring about any family history of mental illness.

Sleep and mental health

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

MAY 7, 2025

Science News from research organizations Non-inherited genes affect childrens development Date: May 7, 2025 Source: University College London Summary: Parents genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report. non-cognitive skills).

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

A Professor Emeritus in the Education Department at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. You have instruments and measures.

Poverty and mental health

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

Genetics and mental health

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. Higgins, MD Explore transformative memoirs and insights on estrangement in these 2 brief book reviews.

Sleep and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

MAY 29, 2025

Youth-led solutions support healthier tech use and peer wellness Sacramento, CA As young people navigate the complexities of the digital age, a new wave of solutions is emerging designed by youth, for youth. When we listen to young people and equip them to lead, we create more relevant and impactful behavioral health supports.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Y ouths are facing a mental health crisis. America has a track record of stigmatizing mental health struggles, particularly the mental health struggles of students with historically marginalized identities. Something obviously needs to change when a child feels this way.

Aging and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.

Poverty and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

JANUARY 3, 2025

As parents, educators, and mental health professionals, we’re all grappling with the impact of technology on our kids. To develop tools that could help identify Problematic Internet Use (PIU) in adolescents from easily measurable metrics of physical health. How much screen time is too much? The challenge?

Aging and mental health

ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Washington, DC ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH), a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to mental health services and supports, fighting mental and behavioral health stigma, and enhancing health equity, commends the U.S.

Aging and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Citizen scientists will use Healthy Brain Network data on physical activity and internet use; competition sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA New York, NY The youth mental health crisis has many causes, but one rising concern is technology. The internet is a vital tool for education, entertainment, and connection.

Genetics and mental health

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 23, 2025

ADHD in Elementary School Age Child: Patient Case 1 EP: 3. Before reaching specialized behavioral health services, families typically consult pediatricians who must possess comprehensive knowledge of ADHD presentation, diagnostic criteria, and evidence-based treatment approaches. ADHD Diagnosis Criteria EP: 4.

Genetics and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In a world that wasnt built for neurodivergent thinkers, technology can provide a safe and comforting space for differently wired kids to explore, learn, be themselves, and find their niche. There’s certainly a lot of benefit to screens, notes Cynthia Martin, PsyD , senior director of the Autism Center at the Child Mind Institute.

Autism spectrum

Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Full disclosure Dr. Dewey recommends that parents let kids know about their own experience with learning issues in an age-appropriate way, using language the child can relate to. Family history is one piece of the puzzle that helps clinicians and educators better understand children and what they need emotionally and academically.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

Global mental health

Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 23, 2024

Watch the Recording On August 20, over 950 viewers tuned in as Dave Anderson, PhD , vice president of public engagement and education at the Child Mind Institute, moderated a roundtable discussion on what the research says about the perils and promise of social media for our kids. You cant deny this!

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop.

Aging and mental health

ADDitude

MAY 8, 2025

It does not discriminate, and can affect people of any gender, race, socioeconomic status, or level of education, explains psychologist Tami Sullivan, Ph.D., As they age, the tendency is depression, very low self-image, unplanned pregnancy, intimate partner violence, and non-suicidal self-injury. explains Sullivan.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Kasdan is a longtime business and technology writer who pivoted to memoir writing on a quest to tell her sister’s story, joining the Westport Writers’ Workshop. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 23, and she was ultimately hospitalized many times, right? Oh, that’s her ‘mental illness.’” She took it seriously.

Hospitality

Department of Psychiatry News

JULY 1, 2025

Valeria Frighi Dr Frighi was a Senior Clinical Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Her work focused on improving health outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities and those experiencing severe mental illness.

Genetics and mental health

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And our commonly held psychological theories make it hard for people to make direct contact with depression as a living experience, by framing it as an objective mental disorder to be quickly eliminated. Meditators experience this by observing the ceaseless arising and passing away of their mental and emotional states.

Construction

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

Aging and mental health

ADDitude

APRIL 16, 2025

In the case of ADHD, medical experts use rating scales, neuroimaging studies, and/or criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 (DSM-5) to assess whether patients meet the threshold for a diagnosis. The highest risk of marijuana use was found among students with ADHD who started medication after age 15.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 30, 2024

Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things that no one else wants to deal with. I sit with a group of men who serve long-term sentences for violent crimes.

Education