Newly-Revised List of Industry-Independent Experts for Journalists
From HealthNewsReview: For nine years, HealthNewsReview has hosted a one-of-a-kind list of health care industry-independent experts for journalists. The list has now been revised with new...
My Grandmother is a Drug Addict—and I Blame Big Pharma
In this piece for Alternet, Joshua Wilkey discusses his grandmother's addiction to opioid painkillers and details the role that pharmaceutical companies have played in Appalachia's opioid...
Female Brains are More Active?
From Discover Magazine: Headlines in various news sources reporting on a new study claim that women's brains have been found to be more active than...
The Disturbing Link Between Frequent Nightmares and Suicide
From Science of Us: Over the past few months, multiple studies have linked frequent nightmares to increased risk for both suicidality and self-harm.
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Suicide Rate for Teen Girls Hits 40-Year High
From TIME: According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate among teen girls reached a 40-year high in 2015. From 2007...
The Man With the Most Famous Brain in Science
From STAT: In 1998, a graduate student at the Montreal Neurological Institute named Colin Holmes underwent 27 brain scans and combined them into one high-quality...
The Strange, Contagious History of Bulimia
In this piece for Science of Us, Lee Daniel Kravetz discusses the impact of media exposure on the rise of bulimia and explores the social...
Perfectionism as a Risk Factor for Suicide
From The British Psychological Society: In the most comprehensive test on perfectionism and suicidality to date, perfectionism was found to be a major risk factor...
Dr. Joel Lexchin Says Big Pharma is too Close With Physicians
From The Toronto Star: In his new book Doctors in Denial: Why Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are too Close for Comfort, Dr. Joel...
To the Bone: The Trouble With Anorexia on Film
From The Atlantic: The new Netflix film To the Bone, which tells the story of a woman's struggle with anorexia, reflects our culture's morbid fascination and...
Your Instagram Posts May Hold Clues to Your Mental Health
From The New York Times: New research suggests that Instagram users who have been diagnosed with depression tend to post darker, bluer, and grayer photos...
Sometimes Giving a Person a Choice is an Act of Terrible Cruelty
From Aeon: We tend to believe that giving people more choices is inherently positive. However, forcing people to choose between two morally wrong options can be...
Why We Fell for Clean Eating
From The Guardian: Not only is the clean eating movement based on pseudoscientific beliefs not backed up by evidence, but it may also lead to...
A Mad World: Capitalism and the Rise of Mental Illness
From Red Pepper: Capitalism produces much of the mental distress that is categorized as "mental illness" by turning human creativity and connectivity into social isolation,...
Tripping for Knowledge: The Psychedelic Epistemologist
In this interview for 3:AM Magazine, Chris Letheby argues that even though psychedelics may induce delusions or imaginary phenomena, their use can also lead to accurate...
Indescribable You
In this piece for Aeon, Carlin Flora critiques sociologists' and psychologists' attempts to categorize and classify people's personalities into distinct groups and profiles, advocating that we...
The Rise of Solitary
From Dissent Magazine: In her recently published book 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, scholar and advocate Keramet Reiter discusses the...
Division 32 APA Response to Racism & Violence in Charlottesville
It is not hate that kills, as much as it is silence. That is why Division 32 of the American Psychological Association is encouraging...
State Sees Boom in Number of Psychiatric Beds
From The Boston Globe: Massachusetts has seen a significant increase in its number of psychiatric institutions since 2015. However, many psychiatric patients are still waiting for...
App Allows You to Call Volunteers to Help the Homeless
From Healthline: A new app, Concrn, allows users to request assistance from mental health volunteers for homeless people in need. The creators of the app...
Third of Men With Poor Mental Health Blame Jobs, Says Mind
From BBC: According to survey results from the UK mental health charity Mind, a third of men experiencing poor mental health attribute their suffering to workplace...
Gratitude Lists are B.S. — Ingratitude Lists Saved me
In this piece for Good Housekeeping, one woman shares how "thinking positive" and making gratitude lists worsened her depression, and how acknowledging her pain and...
We Need to Change the way we Think About Alcoholism
From Massive: The public generally conceptualizes alcoholism as a biological brain disease and rejects the notion that social and cultural factors may contribute to addiction....
Turns out Action Video Games Really can Harm Your Brain
From Global News: According to a recent Montreal study, habitually playing action video games can lead to grey matter loss in the hippocampus, which is...
The Therapist who Saved my Life
In this creative nonfiction piece for Literary Hub, one woman shares her story of trauma, depression, and suicidality, and recounts the unconventional approach of the...
