Simple nature-based activities can reduce stress, sharpen focus, and improve mental health—no wilderness or special gear required.

The sharp rise in mental health diagnoses among young people has ignited a polarizing debate. Many identify global upheavals as the source of the surge in mental illness — Covid-19, social media, ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Mental health: Gist of mental illness. [iStockphoto] According to the Kenya Psychiatry ...

The more we understand about mental illness — depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and more — the better we can support ourselves and those around us. Strategies for coping and ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By analyzing genetic data from more than six million people, researchers uncovered ...

NAMI publishes reports on critical, emerging issues to help inform the public about the importance of effective mental health ...

When a young woman earning her Ph.D. in biostatistics came to see psychiatrist Michael Gandal with symptoms of psychosis, she became the fifth person in her immediate family to be diagnosed with a ...

Who is more likely to develop a mental illness: men or women? For the Victorians there was no doubt. After a visit to London’s St Luke’s Hospital for the Insane in 1851, Charles Dickens wrote: The ...