Some examples The Associated Press found of patients at psychiatric hospitals being held in seclusion for months or years at a time:
For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge state institutions.
Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.
A mentally ill homeless man will serve 57 months in federal prison for threats he made against President Bush.
Roughly one in every five U.S. troops who have survived the bombs and other dangers of Iraq and Afghanistan now suffers from major depression or post-traumatic stress, an independent study said Thursday. It estimated the toll at 300,000 or more.
The 268-148 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill to require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses when policies cover both.
Mental illness and the media are as inextricably linked as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. My first realization of this came when I announced way back that I was going to journalism school with the intent of becoming a reporter. Since my parents couldn’t afford to fly me to Vienna at the time, and research was still sketchy regarding the benefits of shock therapy, they were somewhat helpless and had no alternative but to go along and accept my loony career choice.
Cheer up, Utah. That state, with West Virginia and Kentucky close behind, were just named the saddest in the country in a new report by Mental Health America.
More Gulf Coast residents are thinking seriously about suicide or showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder as the recovery from Hurricane Katrina inches along, a new survey finds.
After years of trying, advocates think they have a good chance of getting Congress to pass legislation next year that would require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses, if their policies include both.
A jobless Palestinian-born man accused of threatening President Bush while involuntarily committed at a mental hospital was ordered Monday to remain jailed until his trial.
Pending legislation creates billion dollar funding stream for Psycho-Pharma Complex. Motherhood has fallen prey as well to the psycho-pharmaceutical complex.
Scientists at the United Kingdom's Cambridge and Aberystwyth universities have created a "robot scientist" that they believe is the first automaton to make its own scientific discoveries. More Articles
Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology — including, at one point, telephone switchboards.
Cooper created the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) at the Shock Trauma Unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, the state's busiest hospital for violent injuries. It became one of the country's first hospital-based anti-violence programs. More Articles
The nation does a poor job in the ways it serves its mentally ill population, earning a D, according to a report card issued Wednesday by an advocacy group
Old age begins at 27 as mental powers start to decline, according to scientists.
Metaphorically, the neuroengineering approach brings the study of the brain into the Age of Enlightenment. By isolating, then testing and altering individual parts of the neural system, we can, for the first time, truly understand what those components do.
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One idea that elite universities like Yale, sprawling public systems like Wisconsin and smaller private colleges like Lewis and Clark have shared for generations is that a traditional liberal arts education is, by definition, not intended to prepare students for a specific vocati …
A religious leader pleaded no contest Thursday to charges that he stashed a rotting corpse for two months in a follower's bathroom. Alan Bushey was charged last year with hiding a corpse, causing mental harm to a child and theft.
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DVD teaches autistic children how to recognize emotions like happiness, anger and sadness through the exploits of vehicles including a train, a ferry, and a cable car.
A 2008 study of nearly 35,000 adults in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that 5.9% — which would translate into 18 million Americans — had been given a BPD diagnosis. As recently as 2000, the American Psychiatric Association believed that only 2% had BPD.
When the American journalist David Plotz took Provigil, he said it should be given a slogan. Just as valium was marketed as "the housewife's little helper," he said this should be sold as "the boss' little helper." It makes you work better and harder than before. More Articles
Burning popcorn and "pack rat" syndrome is being blamed for a fire that destroyed a unit in an Oceanside townhome Friday night, firefighters said.
"With coupons unavailable, support and education insufficient, and the most vulnerable Americans exposed, I urge you to consider a change to the legislatively-mandated analog cutoff date," John Podesta, co-chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team wrote in the letter, …
"We need the best brains working on the best brains." That's the way Professor Paul Francis from King's College London sums up the problem facing scientists working on a range of diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Autism. More Articles
Tests confirmed the fish is the first vertebrate known to have developed mirrors to focus light into its eyes, the team reports in Current Biology. More Articles
Prop 63 is driving tax revenue down when state most needs it. Millionaires are taking their 1% when moving to different states. From the state measures drafting committee Rose King,
Happiness can be a paradox: The more you reach for it, the more it seems to slip through your fingers. "Ask yourself if you're happy, and you cease to be so," says Darrin McMahon, PhD, author of Happiness: A History.
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Worried your winter blues might be something more sinister or having a manic day? Find out if you need help with our simple questionnaires. (If you have concerns about your mental health, contact a mental health professional)
"At the Army Science Conference we are showcasing seven areas we believe will give rise to disruptive technologies for our Soldiers in the future," he said. "It is not just the individual areas themselves, but it is also the synergy that exists among these areas."
The study, which appears in the journal Intelligence, appears to support the idea that genes underlying intelligence may have other biological effects too. More Articles