mental health

Taking the hallucinogenic DMT is said to resemble a near death experience. A woman taking the drug as part of a study spoke to Newsweek about being "dropped into a cosmic soup."

Growing evidence suggests ketamine could be used to ease treatment-resistant depression. And researchers at Stanford University were surprised to find out why that could be.

Trial participants will take the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms while having psychological therapy.

Scientists believe certain mental disorders developed as our brains expanded in recent evolutionary history.

Ketamine is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the most promising ways to rapidly treat acute depression.

Scientists believe a chemical used to cure meats could trigger mania.

A team of neurosurgeons and psychiatrists in Spain used this technique on four patients with the eating disorder.

Less than 25 percent of New York Police Department officers have received implicit bias and crisis intervention training since both were promised in 2015.

A huge amount of data have shown that traumatic events like this pose clear risks to the mental and physical health of children.

A new report finds that stress might cause vision loss.

Scientists think we have been wrong for decades about how right-handed and left-handed people process emotions.

Scientists have offered an explanation for why therapy works at a cellular level.

One-third of adults in the U.S. may be unwittingly taking prescription drugs linked to depression and suicide, according to a new study.

Currently, most anti-depressants are based on one hypothesis of how the mental disorder arises.

He was sentenced to death after murdering his former partner, his four-year-old son and a 13-month-old girl.

Historically, suicide rates have been higher among whites than blacks across all age groups.

Employees at the Surf and Turf lodge said that Roger Self took his family to the restaurant before leaving and ploughing his car into the area where they were seated.

People should think twice about using their smartphones after 10 p.m., according to scientists.

Feelings of anxiety among Americans has spiked overall in the past year, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

Over 200 researchers worked on the largest study yet into the potential genetic risk factors of the disease which is linked to almost 1 million suicides worldwide each year.

Ketamine is perhaps best known for being a popular recreational drug.

Children experiencing depression, anxiety, and fear following the Parkland high school massacre have been flooding Florida mental heath faclities.

The result "finally puts to bed the controversy on antidepressants," say experts.

Prison Inside Me is one of the more popular programs.

“As every day goes by, we are at greater risk of total annihilation,” psychologist John Gartner said.

“It is not a surprise to me, in the months following, that there are higher rates of suicide and depression.”

Now his mother is claiming her first-grader was caught in a case of cop abuse.

“The limited screen Trump received can even be harmful, by giving the public a false sense of reassurance,” read the op-ed.

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment asks people to draw a cube, remember five words and repeat sentences exactly.

Finasteride can cause "debilitating sexual dysfunction" resistant to Viagra.