Mental Illness
Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions - disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders and addictive behaviors. Many people have mental health concerns from time to time.
What's Popular in Mental Illness
MAR 13, 2019
6:00 AM PDT
MAR 13, 2019
6:00 AM PDT
Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, will provide an overview of challenges and opportunities in mental health research. Dr. Gordon will present em...
MAY 03, 2018
11:00 AM PDT
MAY 03, 2018
11:00 AM PDT
DATE: May 3, 2018TIME: 11:00AM PDT, 2:00PM EDTWhile stress is one of the leading causes of neuropsychiatric disorders, the molecular underpinnings of how stress induces alterations in b...
MAR 17, 2016
10:30 AM PDT
MAR 17, 2016
10:30 AM PDT
The adolescent brain has been forged by evolution to have different features than those of a child or an adult, but it is not broken or defective. Phenomenal ability to adapt to environ...
MAR 17, 2016
9:00 AM PDT
MAR 17, 2016
9:00 AM PDT
A key goal in psychiatry is to build new diagnostic, therapeutic and translational tools and capacity to reduce the impact of emerging mental disorders in young people on survival, distress,...
MAR 19, 2015
12:00 PM PDT
MAR 19, 2015
12:00 PM PDT
There is growing interest internationally in elucidating the clinical and biological profile of those at high genetic risk to bipolar disorder (BD) so as to enable the development of targeted...
