mental health

The study is the first to evaluate the medication as a possible treatment for alcoholism.

The pain of loneliness can cut deeper than a knife. But its implications go beyond inner turmoil and the corrosion of emotional health. It can contribute to a host of debilitating and sometimes lethal diseases.

Joan Asarnow is working on a pair of projects aimed at combating rising suicide rates among young people and changing prevention and care throughout the U.S.

The findings could help improve upon standard behavioral therapy, in which people are exposed to the objects they’re afraid of — which can be frightening enough that some cannot complete treatment.

If winter days get you down, you’re not alone. You may have seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression triggered by the change of seasons.

UCLA’s Bonnie Zima and colleagues found that the number of pediatric hospitalizations that included a psychiatric diagnosis rose 138 percent between 2005 and 2014.

Among the strategies that people use to cope with the disorder are avoiding stressful situations, staying away from alcohol and drugs, and trying to interact with people who are supportive and non-judgmental.

The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation recently honored four UCLA scientists for their transformative work in schizophrenia with 2016 outstanding achievement prizes, among the most prestigious given in the field of psychiatric research.

A study by UCLA researchers found that a noninvasive method can help to determine whether an individual will enter remission after just one week of medical treatment.

A UCLA study used 3D chromosome-mapping technology to advance understanding of disorder’s cause. The work provides important new information about how schizophrenia originates and could lead to better treatments.

UCLA study shows that people participating in workplace fitness programs also see improved mental health.

UCLA study shows that 42 percent of girls with ADHD were diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, compared with just 5 percent of girls without it.

"The Center Cannot Hold" tells the life story of Elyn Saks, professor of psychiatry and law, whose schizophrenic episodes began when she was in high school and worsened when she was a student at Yale Law School.

The center offers therapeutic leisure activities, exercise classes, art therapy, cognition improvement strategies, and health and nutrition education to help MS patients.

Free screening of a documentary about WBNA player Chamique Holdsclaw, who emerged as an inspiring mental health advocate following a long struggle with depression.

A UCLA policy brief recommends that veterans’ mental health status be continuously monitored throughout their lives, not just when emergencies arise.

Participants will have access to highly individualized, intensive treatment that draws on UCLA’s nationally recognized expertise in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and integrative medicine.

UCLA researchers found that workouts, in addition to brain games, appear to trigger a protein that restores connections between neurons.

Psychology professor A. Janet Tomiyama notes that some 34.4 million of the 70 million-plus Americans categorized as “overweight” by BMI were perfectly healthy.

Psychiatry professor Marco Iacoboni writes about the role empathy-generating mirror neurons play in creating feelings of community in our collective sports fandom.

By temporarily inactivating a part of the brain involved in impulse control, the researchers discovered compelling evidence that humans are predisposed to be generous to others.

War correspondent and former U.S. Marine David J. Morris discusses his book in a Friends of the Semel Institute Open Mind Lecture.

The director of the UCLA Gambling Studies program on why people (even non-gamblers) bet so much on the Super Bowl, whether office pools are “gateway drugs” to more serious gambling, and how to recognize problem gambling.

Study of more than 7,000 students in 77 elementary schools found that one program greatly benefited the mental health of sixth-graders who experienced the most bullying.

The research revealed the first evidence that trigeminal nerve stimulation, or TNS, helps provide relief from chronic post-traumatic stress.