Mental Health

A decline in smell was the sense loss most strongly associated with such risk in a recent study. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Disinformation expert Carl Bergstrom gives tips on how to stay calm and make sense of pandemic news

Suicide rates have been rising for two decades in the U.S. Will the pandemic make things worse?

Journalist and author Emily Anthes talks about her book The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness.

Research suggests that cultural beliefs about the phenomenon may make it more terrifying to experience

They worked for my depression. Could they be the future of psychiatry?

What can the pandemic teach us about how people respond to adversity?

Journalist and author Florence Williams talks about her book The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative.

The pandemic has heightened OCD phobias such as fear of germs. Yet some patients say experience with anxiety, and treatment for it, gives them an advantage

The pandemic creates both a need and an opportunity to help kids deal with difficult emotions

In the wake of the pandemic, there will be an even greater need for help in the face of loss, isolation and trauma

Researchers are beginning to untangle the common biology that links supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions