Unipolar depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and alcohol use are among the neuropsychiatric disorders that represent 45% of the disease burden among teenagers and young adults worldwide. Unfortunately, these disorders are glaringly absent from too many health programs, researchers from the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, reported in the medical journal The Lancet…

Patients in residential treatment programs for drug and alcohol abuse may benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy for depressive symptoms, according to a new report.

Difficulty remembering important dates and medications, and gathering paperwork, is more common in older individuals with mild cognitive impairment than in those with no cognition problems, according to a new report.

A brain imaging study suggests that men with a history of violent behavior may have greater gray matter volume in certain brain areas, whereas men with a history of substance use disorders may have reduced gray matter volume in other brain areas, according to a new report.

It is one of the wonders of language: We cannot possibly anticipate or memorize every potential word, phrase or sentence. Yet we have no trouble constructing and understanding myriads of novel utterances every day. How do we do it? Linguists say we naturally and unconsciously employ abstract rules — syntax.

Males who bullied other children during their childhood are much more likely to be violent towards their intimates partners later on in life, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine today…

Brain scans have revealed that males with a history of violent behavior have more gray matter in certain parts of the brain, while those with a substance abuse disorder have less, researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, revealed in Archives of General Psychiatry. Violent behavior is linked to a complex combination of social, psychological and biological factors…

CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) appears to help patients in drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs with symptoms of depression, researchers from the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California reported in Archives of General Psychiatry today. The authors explain that depressive symptoms are common in individuals with a history of substance abuse…

Teens can be troubled, but a huge new study released this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that gay, lesbian or bisexual adolescents are more likely than their heterosexual peers to take unhealthy risks…

Foraging creatures decide at some point that the food source they’re working on is no richer than the rest of the patch and that it’s time to move on and find something better. Researchers have now found an area of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) that seems to be integral to this decision, firing with increasing activity until a threshold is reached, whereupon the animal decides it’s time to move on.