The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) provides a wide range of mental health programs and services in some 135 communities across Canada. Now we have extended our reach in supporting Canadians' mental health to an exciting new level...

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Numerous recent studies have undercut the purported benefits of various herbal supplements. Gingko , echinacea and Saint John's wort , have all been found relatively ineffective against many of the ills they have been claimed to help. [More]



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May is Mental Health Month and this year NIMH teams up with SAMHSA to celebrate and promote Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day on May 6th. Dr. Insel talks about how mental illnesses are the chronic diseases of the young.

NIMH is working to better define the boundaries of pediatric bipolar disorder, discover its causes and develop more effective treatments for such mood related syndromes affecting youth.

As currently defined, borderline personality disorder is considered a reflection of an essential aspect of a person’s character that influences his or her way of seeing and being seen in the world. Recent research, however, has shown that symptoms of the disorder aren’t constant and may not always be as enduring as some researchers and clinicians may think.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is calling for a rethink in strategic funding of mental health research following a major six-month review, published online today and reported in the journalThe Lancet...

Questions for psychologist Katherine C. Nordal, PhD, about the benefits of therapy in treating mental health disorders. The following feature was produced by the American Psychological Association. Feel free to use it in its entirety or in part; we only request that you credit APA as the source. We also have a photograph of Dr. Nordal available to reprint. May is Mental Health Awareness Month...

A Nobel Prize-winning University of Utah geneticist discovered that bone marrow transplants cure mutant mice who pull out their hair compulsively. The study provides the first cause-and-effect link between immune system cells and mental illness, and points toward eventual new psychiatric treatments...

The new Government has outlined plans to get five million people off benefits and into work, including millions of people who are currently claiming Employment and Support Allowance or the old Incapacity Benefit for health problems and disabilities...