Mental Health

FDA advisers raised concerns about clinical trials and questioned study data and potential safety risks of MDMA, including heart problems.

ADHD symptoms include difficulty staying focused, excessive fidgeting, acting without thinking and difficulty with self-control.

Snuggling with a cat seems like a loving and relaxing activity, but a new study implies that it might affect your mental health down the line.

Treatment methods for season depression include light boxes, sitting in sunlight when possible and getting physical activity.

Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by higher rates of depression or limited availability of mental health services.

Could social media for kids be regulated next, like car seats and baby formula? The U.S. surgeon general is pushing policymakers to consider change in a new report on social media and youth mental health.

Veterans do not need to be enrolled in the VA system for the new policy, which includes inpatient care for up to 30 days and outpatient care for up to 90 days.

The 988 mental health helpline has quickly expanded its reach in the six months since it launched — with over 2 million calls, texts and chat messages pouring in.

Researchers said habitual social media checking in teens is impacting their brain development at a time when they're already going through "significant structural and functional reorganization."

The findings come from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which created TikTok accounts for fictitious young people living in the U.S., Britain, Canada and Australia.

The study found an association across race/ethnicity and gender, but women may benefit slightly more from the health-protective benefits of having a sense of purpose.

"As guys, we have a tendency to not ask for help. Ego gets in the way, and we start stuffing things deep down in our guts, which is not a good thing," Johnson said.

“I told her ‘I don’t know who you are, but I’m here and I love you, and I’m going to help you,’” Dane Entze said.

The study findings may help future efforts to better understand the origins of eating disorders and how they differ between sexes, researchers said.

Before COVID-19 wreaked havoc on mental health, there was already a surge of youth visits to emergency departments for suicidal thoughts between 2016 and 2019, the study says.

A single dose of psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in “magic mushrooms,” was found to help some people who previously had gotten little relief from standard antidepressants.

The new research, led by a scientist at Stanford, may tell us “something fundamentally important” about how human emotions work.

In addition to helping people, scientists say they are also advocating for the protection of the environment and wildlife.

The research found that the pandemic made U.S. adults under 30 "moodier and more prone to stress, less cooperative and trusting, and less restrained and responsible."