Mental Health & Society

There is a common complaint I get from the public: scientists who know the most about a topic are often the least able to give people a straight answer.

Dead at 53. Another former professional athlete from the National Hockey League.

Randa Jarrar, an English professor at Fresno State, is rightfully in hot water.

A video of a woman playing the flute while undergoing brain surgery for tremors has gone viral.

Despite the macabre nature of the grim discovery of a Medieval Italian woman’s body buried with her partially delivered unborn baby, the medical findings and their implications prove quite fascinating and educational.

We all have habits. Some are useful automatic actions that we can do without thinking about, like pressing the start button on our coffee maker while still half asleep and bleary-eyed.

The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is a quick, 10-question test that attempts to objectify an inherently subjective topic: depression.

Graduate school can be extremely tough on students.

One of the key pillars of suicide prevention is identifying those at risk of suicide and getting them the counseling or treatment that they need. Typically, this responsibility falls to family, friends, and therapists.

Along with the projected increase in the number of elderly people over the next few decades, we can also expect an increase in the ailments that bedevil them — and few are as concerning as Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia.