Mental Health

Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen offers tips on how to tell the difference between satisfied solitude and fearful avoidance

Tom Insel will launch his own company to analyze behavior and mental illness using smartphone data

Tweaking the gut microbiome may hold promise for fighting stress, anxiety

What science shows about the dangers of suicide depictions

Gelotophobics can’t stand to hear chuckles because they think they’re the butt of the joke

People prone to believing in elaborate cover-ups could just be seeking more meaning in life

A promising treatment that uses MDMA could help people suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder 

It pays to get the time spent on a device just right

Many people on the spectrum take multiple medications, which can lead to serious side effects and may not even be effective

Trauma can be passed down to offspring due to epigenetic changes in DNA. But positive experiences seem able to correct that. Erika Beras reports. 

New research suggests it doesn’t help—and it may hurt—to rely on a formula to predict the risk of a suicide

The Republican-proposed repeal bill is slated for a House vote on Thursday