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The National Institute of Mental Health released a five-year strategic plan that prioritizes the genetics of mental illness, the development of treatments based on those findings and the discovery of brain patterns related to a range of mental health disorders.
A new report says the costs associated with major depressive disorder and other related conditions affect businesses’ bottom lines.
The federal government is spending $26 billion to get doctors and hospitals to move to digital records to help coordinate care, but the funding does not include mental health clinics, psychologists and psychiatric hospitals.
In a lawsuit over a rape case involving three basketball players, the university accessed a student’s mental health records detailing treatment she received at the campus clinic.
Residents of a tiny rural town in northern California talk about the lack of access to mental health care.
The biggest barrier to treatment for residents of a tiny town in the mountains of Northern California isn’t insurance coverage-- it’s distance.
Following up on a critical report in 2013, the California Department of Managed Health Care found Kaiser Permanente had not resolved concerns about providing timely and appropriate access to treatment.
The chief of the Department of Health and Human Services says Democrats and Republicans can reach accord on many issues beyond the health law.
A 50-state analysis details incidence rates of mental illness and access to care across the country.
People who have lost significant weight are uneasy about how much to reveal in online dating profiles, and research shows they have good reason to be.
Six states allow these counselors
Strong leadership and common-sense budgeting created a model mental health care system in San Antonio.
With specialized training and a redirection of resources, San Antonio's police force is taking better care of mentally ill people, keeping them out of jail and saving $10 million a year.
A one-year pilot project in Gosnold, Mass., provides recovering addicts with daily, sometimes hourly, help from a recovery coach.
It offers a plan geared to people with serious mental illnesses that will coordinate physical and behavioral services.
Patients in rural hospitals often have to wait days to see a psychiatrist. South Carolina is a leader in turning that around.
Caregivers blame Pennsylvania's decision not to expand Medicaid, as well as the continued stigma of seeking such care.
That state has defined autism behavioral therapy as a type of medical benefit not subject to the mental health parity law, a move that allows insurers more latitude to limit the benefits they offer.
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