The Latest Breaking News from Mental Health

The Commission on Young Lives report said access to mental health services remains a ‘postcode lottery’.

Researchers found changes in the brains of primary school pupils who got less than nine hours of sleep a night

The founders of a surfing program credited with successfully helping countless veterans with PTSD and other mental health conditions hope it can win a federal government funding boost and be rolled out across the country.

Mental health and addiction teaching hospital and research center CAMH has recently been awarded Canada's first federal grant by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to study psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. 

Perinatal organisations are being forced to turn away women struggling with homelessness and mental health due to a surge in demand across Western Sydney.

Twenty-eight-year-old Brianna Marie Grier, who died six days after the arrest, was handcuffed in front of her body and was not wearing a seatbelt

At least one patient has had the seizure-inducing treatment a hundred times, campaigners claim

The family of Stephen O'Neill say he took his own life after developing mental health issues as a side-effect of medicine he was prescribed

The council's Health and Social Care Partnership has worked with the NHS and Third Sector to build support services and offer help to individuals and families whose lives are blighted by drug misuse

Losing a parent during adolescence and young adulthood can be particularly damaging to mental health and wellbeing. Our latest research has now shown that young people who lost a parent were more likely to be admitted to hospital for treatment for substance misuse use problems or suicidal behaviour around the…

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