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April 05, 2012 As thousands of additional veterans seek mental health care every month, the Department of Veterans Affairs is short of psychiatrists, with 20% vacancy rates in much of the country served by VA hospitals, according to department data.

April 05, 2012 Learning that her son Robert was diagnosed with autism was overwhelming enough, but Theresa Dupree of District Heights knew in 2006 that he would need more help than Landover’s William Paca Elementary could offer at the time.

Measuring what are known as executive functions, which reflect the cognitive ability to deal with sudden problems, may make it possible to predict how good an elite soccer player will become in the future. Scientists believe that they have finally foun…

A study published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication, reveals that infants born to mothers who take intrauterine antipsychotic medications during pregnancy, have considerably lower scores on a standard test of neuromotor performance. Approximately 66.6% of women with a history of mental illness give birth…

Love it or leave it – if only it were that simple. According to new research from Concordia University, the Universite de Montreal and HEC Montreal, staying in an organization out of a sense of obligation or for lack of alternatives can lead to emotional exhaustion, a chronic state of physical and mental depletion resulting from continuous stress and excessive job demands…

New research finds that a person’s memory declines at a faster rate in the two- and-a-half years before death than at any other time after memory problems first begin. A second study shows that keeping mentally fit through board games or reading may …

Among autistic children with no family history of ASD, researchers uncovered 49 gene mutations disrupting a pathway that modifies chromatin and regulates genes in the brain and nervous system. Various changes in this pathway contribute to children deve…

Research into the behavior of flies and their sleep-wake mechanism in a natural environment flies in the face of over 40 years of research in controlled laboratory conditions.

A new study is the first to identify a neurobehavioral effect of BPA using a zebrafish model exposed to concentrations comparable to what humans might encounter in the environment.

Yoga classes have positive psychological effects for high-school students, according to a pilot study.