Psychology & Psychiatry
Pilots, and airlines, are struggling with mental health. Here's what they're doing to help
Captain Robert Graves sees strangers every day as a pilot for Southwest Airlines.
Apr 18, 2024
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News tagged with severe mental illness
Psychology & Psychiatry
For-profit companies open psychiatric hospitals in areas clamoring for care
A for-profit company has proposed turning a boarded-up former nursing home here into a psychiatric hospital, joining a national trend toward having such hospitals owned by investors instead of by state governments or nonprofit ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
MAID and mental health: Does ending the suffering of mental illness mean supporting death or supporting better lives?
Recent headlines have highlighted debates among federal parties over the proposal to extend Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to people suffering solely with mental illness.
Mar 5, 2024
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Medications
Your lifestyle can determine how well your medicine will work
By examining liver samples from 116 deceased persons with severe mental disorders, researchers have demonstrated that smoking, obesity and alcohol use can be decisive in determining how medicine will work for an individual ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Health
Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say 'yes'
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that's exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans.
Feb 12, 2024
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Medical research
Pioneering link between census data and electronic mental health records
King's College London researchers are the first research team in England, to link electronic mental health care records to census data, at an individual level.
Jan 31, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Functional seizures have long been misunderstood and may be more serious than previously thought, study suggests
The death rate for patients with functional, non-epileptic seizures is higher than expected, with a rate comparable to epilepsy and severe mental illness, a Michigan Medicine-led study finds.
Jan 24, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Newsom urges support for March ballot measure to reform California's mental health system
Gov. Gavin Newsom gathered with city leaders and public safety officials Wednesday to urge support of Proposition 1, an overhaul of the state's mental health system that will be on California's March 5 primary election ballot.
Jan 4, 2024
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Medications
Research finds peer support vital for those taking medication for severe mental illness
Researchers at Aston Pharmacy School have found that people with severe mental illness could benefit from peer support to help them manage their medication and improve their health and quality of life.
Dec 7, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New studies of brain activity explain benefits of electroconvulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, involves inducing a brief seizure in the brain using controlled doses of electricity. While ECT is highly effective for certain mental illnesses, particularly ...
Nov 15, 2023
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