Psychiatry

Antidepressants Mental Health

Many young people are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs at once — which can be risky

Does the sound of your partner chewing irritate you? You may have misophonia

Misophonia headphones

Alternative Medicine

FDA to review MDMA's potential as a PTSD treatment

MDMA capsules PTSD

Medicare expands the roster of available mental health professionals

Medicare Mental Health

As the youth mental health crisis worsens, the dire shortage of providers prevents young people from getting help

Mental Health Teens

Half of the world's population will experience mental illness by age 75, study says

Mental Illness by 75

Rutgers medical students to study 'Stranger Things' as metaphor for mental illness

Stranger Things 4 Rutgers

Children's Health

Rare neuropsychiatric condition causes children's personalities to shift overnight

PANS in Children

Drexel grad just launched a low-cost online therapy tool

rethink online therapy

Study proves success of exercise as treatment in psychiatric patients

Carroll - Weights at a gym

Who's avoiding sex, and why

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Philly honoring psychiatrist who challenged designation of homosexuality as mental illness

Penn to launch genetic research program on Asperger syndrome

Drexel study: Children's grades can suffer when parents are depressed

Psychiatrist questions 'Billy Doe's' claim of priest sexual abuse, Newsweek reports

Ancora prison inmate captured in Philadelphia

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Medicare paid for nearly 40M tranquilizer prescriptions in 2013

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The science of ... body dysmorphic disorder

Local psychiatrist 'gets published' in NYT

Bruce Levin

Women Heart Health

Women's arteries are less clogged than men's, but that doesn't protect them from heart attack risks

Vaccine lawsuit

Pa., N.J. and 13 other states sue Trump administration over changes to vaccine schedule

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Pro athletes are turning to hyperbaric oxygen therapy, but for most people the benefits are still...

Mental Health Affirmation

Do positive affirmations work? A psychologist unpacks the evidence

Be someone’s lifeline: Roll up your sleeve

Dark Showering Sleep

Can dark showering help you sleep better? Here's what the science says

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