Mental Health

Scientific American executive editor Fred Guterl talks with Pres. Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, about climate science, space travel, the issue of reproducibility in science, the brain initiative and more.

Pulitzer Prize–winning N.Y.U. historian David Oshinsky, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center, talks about his latest book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital.

How healing occurs and what you can do to offer support to someone with PTSD

Critics have portrayed ECT as a form of medical abuse. Yet many psychiatrists, and more importantly, patients, consider it to be safe and effective. Few medical treatments have such disparate images

The science on that question is mixed, but for me it feels more like a form of meditation

This week, Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen examines how ADHD often manifests in girls and women

Like “self love” or “inner child,” the term “codependent” smacks of pop psychology psychobabble. To make matters worse, it’s become shorthand for a whole host of unhealthy behaviors. But what does it really mean? And does it describe your relationship?

A new study suggests a link between hormonal contraceptives and depression.  Which methods were more likely to cause these mood changes? And what do you need to know before you make any decisions about your contraceptive health?

Abuse of cocaine, alcohol and pills was the patient’s obvious problem, but at its root was undiagnosed ADHD

Researchers are exploring therapy that reduces nighttime terrors

A look inside the January/February issue of Scientific American Mind