Most advocates of hypnosis split the procedure into two parts. During the “induction”, patients are encouraged to focus on ...

Rates of anxiety and depression in adolescents have been rising for years. Millions of Americans with mental health problems are not getting the treatment they need for myriad reasons. Many families ...

Healing from trauma means sharing intimate, often horrifying stories, ideally in a patient’s native language. In Mass., there ...

Summary: New research reveals how oxytocin profoundly influences social behavior and emotional responses in the brain. Animal ...

Lithium, a drug widely used for bipolar disorder, may also treat autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to new research.

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Chest pain is a common symptom of panic attacks. Tightness in the chest caused by anxiety can present in several ways. For ...

We need to address mental health across the whole life course—including with older people, who are at some of the highest ...

P rogress in addressing mental health is notoriously slow and mostly incremental. Breakthrough treatments tend to be rare, ...

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