Gaming disorder is expected to be added to the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases next year, as worries mount about the addictive quality of the pastime embraced by some 2.6 billion people worldwide.
June 19, 2018
Disease data reporting has come a long way since 16th century London’s weekly Bills of Mortality. Now we have the WHO’s International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, providing a common vocabulary to record and report causes of disease and…
June 11, 2018
The high-profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have cracked open a fresh conversation about why people take their own lives—and how we can predict it. Unfortunately, research hasn't produced an answer that beats random guessing, writes Florida State University…
June 7, 2018
Mental health resources are not keeping pace with need and fail to align with human rights conventions, found the WHO's Mental Health Atlas 2017, pointing to major gaps in community-based services.
May 9, 2018
Does poverty affect early childhood development? An unprecedented study launching next month investigates the developmental effects on children of low-income mothers who receive an unconditional monthly payment of $333 for their child’s first 3 years.
April 20, 2018
What happens when promising research fails an initial futility analysis in a clinical trial? In this case, damaging misinformation and potential loss of hope for patients with debilitating depression. In open trials of deep brain stimulation (DBS), neurologist Helen…
March 21, 2018
A book excerpt from Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth bluntly frames the reality faced by US correctional facilities which “have become the nation’s de facto mental-health-care providers.”
February 26, 2018
Do those violin lessons improve your child’s brain development? What about sports and sleep? In the largest study of its kind, researchers from 21 institutions are looking to answer these questions once and for all with a massive data hive showing how a range of behaviors…
February 7, 2018
In 2016, 24 people at the US Embassy in Cuba reported symptoms like dizziness and nausea after hearing high-pitched noises. Investigators speculated it was some kind of “sonic weapon,” leading to a media frenzy.
January 30, 2018
Alzheimer’s slow onset makes the devastating disease hard to track until it’s too late—but a spate of studies suggest diabetes and high blood sugar levels hint at a source.