He’s been one of the most well-liked meteorologists in the Twin Cities for decades. But 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Morning Chief Meteorologist Ken Barlow has been living with a secret – details he shared with his morning co-anchor and friend Chris Egert.
When Heinz Prechter, founder of the American Sunroof Company, died in 2001 at age 59, his widow created a fund to advance research on mental illness he struggled with: bipolar disorder.
“New Approach May Alleviate Schizophrenia” (front page, Oct. 20) describes a large new study reporting on the optimal treatment for first break psychosis. The winner is a combination of medication, education, skills training and psychotherapy. This is not at all surprising: This package already informs best practice in most other developed countries.
When Elizabeth Vanicelli was 7 years old, she started seeing a therapist for depression. At 9, she was prescribed Paxil, an anti-depressant medication. At 15, things got much worse: she told her psychiatrist she had a plan to end her life.
“You’re always going to remember your first time,” Demi Lovato, wearing a skin-tight, long-sleeved black mini dress and sky-high Chloe Gosselin booties, says to a room full of strangers. Taking center stage (and causing a few cheeks to burn) is not a totally foreign experience for the child actor turned sexy song-of-summer pop star. The audience, however—mostly middle-aged, devoid of tweens—is not her typical demographic.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Vraylar (cariprazine) capsules to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in adults.
The demand for psychiatrists is becoming a more pressing issue for state and federal lawmakers.
Ki Ann Goosens, an assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used to rail against the scientists who weren’t producing enough useful information about schizophrenia. Her brother suffers from the brain disorder, and she couldn’t understand why researchers hadn’t made more progress against it.
We’re eight weeks into our Big Thinkers on Mental Health series, which is just enough time to begin thinking retrospectively. We launched this string of videos in conjunction with the Mental Health Channel with the goal of opening discussion of anxiety, depression, and the many other psychological disorders that affect millions worldwide. So far we’ve touched on several big picture issues such as the escalation of suicide rates and mental health in the black community. What’s arguably been most successful has been the weekly acute focus on issues and disorders that are familiar to the public though not entirely understood.
While the vast majority of Americans value physical and mental health equally, more than four in 10 people see cost as a barrier to treatment for the latter, a new survey from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention shows.