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A recent study revealed that men might connect strongly to publicity campaigns about depression and suicide, particularly when they have options for anonymous help. In Regensburg, Germany, a two-year intervention campaign resulted in a marked drop in male suicides. When
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Suicide rates may be higher up where the air is thinner, hints a new study. Further, researchers found that the effect of elevation was strong even after accounting for ratios of guns to people, as well as people to land.
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Suicide rates for middle-aged people are edging up – particularly for white men without college degrees – and a combination of poor health and a poor economy may be driving it, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Middle-aged people usually have
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While many young adults will share the details of their daily lives with dozens – sometimes hundreds – of friends on Facebook, communicating with their health care providers about mental illness is another story. “Roughly one in every five young
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Robert Zucker, Ph.D., director of the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center, and the Substance Abuse Section in the Department of Psychiatry, has been named recipient of the 31st annual Research Society on Alcoholism Distinguished Researcher Award. The award is
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A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the content and messages presented by websites that appear to support or encourage eating disorders. These websites use images, text and interactive applications to
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Efforts to prevent suicides among U.S. war veterans are failing, in part because distressed troops do not trust the military to help them, top military officials said on Thursday. Poor training, a lack of coordination and an overstretched military are
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The National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS) has published a 2011 Membership Directory. The directory is a comprehensive referral resource providing information on the nation’s behavioral healthcare systems. The NAPHS directory is designed to help clinicians, admissions staffs, employee
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The water in the canals and irrigation channels in the L’Albufera Natural Park in Valencia contain cocaine, ecstasy and a further six drugs. This has been confirmed by a study carried out by researchers from the University of Valencia (UV),
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Young victims of electronic or cyber bullying – which occurs online or by cell phone – are more likely to suffer from depression than their tormentors are, a new study finds. Traditional bullying, the kind that occurs in the school
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For advanced activities of our daily life (such as driving a car, or seeing a movie), to be awake is important. It has been known so far that neuropeptide in the brain called “Orexin”controls sleep and awakening besides appetite. Here,
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While more and more Americans regard mental illness as a disease rooted in the brain, that doesn’t mean they are getting more tolerant of those who suffer from it. That’s according to a new report comparing national surveys from 1996
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