Mental Health

Drugs lifted Frank’s depression, but he had to find meaningful activity to relaunch his life

Inside the July/August 2016 issue of Scientific American Mind

For Olympians and other serious competitors, pushing too hard can mean falling into a physiological and mental abyss

Scientific American Mind considers five recent popular titles from neuroscience and psychology

Rather than relying on symptoms, scientists are developing a “brain circuits first” approach to mental health. 

An afternoon in a Chinese clinic makes it clear how important a patient's speech can be to making a diagnosis

There is no template for the path to violence and rarely can a single cause explain any one atrocity

As we mourn the victims of another mass shooting, a criminologist takes on misconceptions about gun violence

Avoiding mental discomfort at any cost can be a self-defeating strategy 

Gene expression patterns point to new autism candidate genes that could also play roles in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder  

Firearm sellers have become unlikely allies of public health authorities in the effort to block people from killing themselves

The daunting complexity of neurological disorders has begun to yield to methods that allow intensive scrutiny of genes and neural circuits