Most homeless Americans are battling mental illness
Two-thirds of homeless people are experiencing some form of mental health disorder, a large, new review of data on the subject.
Apr 17, 2024
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Two-thirds of homeless people are experiencing some form of mental health disorder, a large, new review of data on the subject.
Apr 17, 2024
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Community engagement is important for developing research involving patients with mental illness, and funding agencies are increasingly requiring such engagement. However, many researchers are unable to pursue advisory boards ...
Jan 25, 2024
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Intuitively, people commonly believe that making music is good for their mental health. Music therapies also rely on a positive influence of music on mental health problems. However, compared to musically inactive people, ...
Feb 7, 2023
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A research team at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) examining 82 mass murders that occurred at least partially in academic settings throughout the world, found ...
Oct 31, 2022
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People with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia are 2.5 times more likely than those without a psychotic disorder to eventually develop dementia, according to a review of evidence led by UCL researchers.
Oct 6, 2022
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A 6-year-old boy began hearing voices coming from the walls and the school intercom telling him to hurt himself and others. He saw ghosts, aliens in trees, and colored footprints. Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, MD, a psychiatrist ...
Aug 24, 2022
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Psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia cause severe distress and suffering for people who experience them and for their families.
Dec 15, 2021
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People with psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, are five times more likely to die from COVID-19 and three times more likely to be hospitalized according to new research by University of Manchester health data scientists.
Dec 7, 2021
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One third of children with a microdeletion of chromosome 22 will later develop a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia. But how do we know which of these children might be affected? Today, various studies have contributed ...
Sep 29, 2021
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Schizophrenia is often diagnosed well into adulthood, typically from the late teens to early 40s. Are there early indicators that could help predict which individuals will go on to develop this serious mental illness?
Jul 27, 2021
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