Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is Oct. 410, 2009 and as part of its observance, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is calling attention to a program now airing on PBS, Minds on the Edge Facing Mental Illness.
Observed annually the first full week in October, Congress established MIAW as [...]

Children born to women taking antidepressants in early pregnancy have a small but important increased risk of septal heart defects (a defect in the wall dividing the right side of the heart from the left side), concludes research published on bmj.com today.
Depression affects up to 20% of pregnant women and the use of selective [...]

People with mental health problems are being drastically let down by the services that are supposed to treat and care for them according to a report by the Care Quality Commission. In the biggest ever survey of mental health patients experiences the results show that people often feel ignored, uninformed about their care and at [...]

Four years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and its health care system. CNNs Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on health care reforms in the city since Katrina “Out of the woodwork, in unorthodox places, the community is responding.” CNN reports on the Lower Ninth Ward Health Clinic, which was started by two former nurses [...]

A study published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology found that the method of control used by parents was significantly related to a childs aggressive behaviour.
Sofie Kuppens and her colleagues from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, studied the amount of physical aggression and relational aggression (the purposeful manipulation or damage to relationships) used [...]

Time to Change [1], the mental health antistigma campaign, launches two provocative films aimed at challenging the stigma surrounding mental health head on.
Both films are launched as an exclusive YouGov poll [2] reveals that more than a third of the public believe people diagnosed with schizophrenia are likely to be violent. The reality [...]

A new report finds mental health care costs are exploding, according to U.S. News & World Report.
“U.S. spending on mental illness is soaring at a faster pace than spending on any other health care category, new government data released Wednesday shows. The cost of treating mental disorders rose sharply between 1996 and 2006, [...]

Longterm survivors of cancer that developed in adulthood are at increased risk of experiencing serious psychological distress, according to a report in the July 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The estimated 12 million cancer survivors in the United States represent approximately 4 percent of the population, [...]

For most parents, soothing a childs anxiety is just part of the job. But for a parent whose child has obsessivecompulsive disorder, soothing anxiety and helping with behaviors linked to the disease could lead to more severe symptoms, University of Florida researchers say.
Often, parents of children with OCD will help their children complete rituals [...]

Babies that fail to receive stimulation and love in the first year are at risk of poor brain development and social skills, a child health expert has warned.
Dr Cheryl Power, a clinical psychologist at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust told delegates at the Royal College of Psychiatrists annual meeting in Liverpool that [...]