mental illness

A controversial CNN segment Sunday featured a psychiatrist demanding professionals stop discussing President Donald Trump's mental health in terms of "psychological name-calling."

Dr. Lance Dodes was one of the first mental health professionals who questioned Donald Trump's stability.

Some commenters embraced the opportunity to share their experiences, while others dismissed it as a superficial take on a deeply serious matter.

The husband of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway called for the president to resign and seek professional help.

A team of researchers investigated five instances of cannibalism in an attempt to uncover the underlying cause behind the unspeakable acts.

Prosecutors say the suspect, 26, was likely experiencing serious mental illness.

The discovery could help researchers create a blood test to diagnose 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.

Findings suggest that psychedelics could be used to treat a host of mood and anxiety disorders, such as depression, anxiety, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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

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

At work, 'successful' psychopaths make it to the highest echelons of power as they are willing to do whatever is necessary to get what they want.

In an address to the country on Thursday morning, the president discussed tackling "the difficult issue of mental health," but did not mention gun control.

The FBI was alerted to Nikolas Cruz after someone with the same username posted a comment on YouTube last fall proclaiming, "I'm going to be a professional school shooter."

How the 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' co-creator, writer, star flipped the rom-com on its head.

Genetic factors in mice helped predict which humans respond well to the drugs.

The problems with the drug are just one sign of a system that is straining to help displaced Syrians.

"Something is unleashed with him lately," Maggie Haberman, New York Times reporter said.

Years of hospital records tell a story of enduring, possibly inherited trauma.

A contested new study used artificial brains to examine schizophrenia.

The reality about the role of people with serious mental illness in gun violence is being obscured or ignored by all sides in the ideological debates over gun control.

There are some holes in the conversation about mental health and its connection to mass violence.

Sufferers of the crippling mental disorder may take solace in at least having some causative genes identified.

With painkillers, Mike Stevens could care for his kids and run his farm; now he can barely dress himself.

About half of severely mentally ill people have a drug problem, and vice versa, but federal policies don't address that.

The president's comments strike a nerve in the fraught discussion of mental illness in mass shootings.

As a former club bouncer and chemical engineer, the pope's past is a frequent source of surprises.

As neo-Nazis rally, psychiatrists return to the decades-old question of whether violent white supremacy is a personality disorder.

Can words kill? And who else might find the criminal justice system bearing down on them now because of words less morally bankrupt than Michelle Carter's?