It started with a horrible, high-pitched wheezing, a sound unlike anything Laurian Scott and her husband, John, had ever heard, and it was coming from their 16-month-old daughter, Thisbe, as she gasped for air.
No one can say with certainty if dogs go to heaven. But the residents of Lyngblomsten care center feel confident that heaven sent a dog to them.
A 6-year-old Portuguese water dog named Moxie has shed light on the furrier side of medicine – providing a dog’s-eye view of her job as a therapy dog as she cuddled with patients and staff.
Brain scans of possibly autistic infants and toddlers can predict whether they will develop normal language skills, according to a new study by UC San Diego researchers.
Mental illness remains highly stigmatized, even after celebrities like Brooke Shields, Mel Gibson and Robin Williams went public with their stories.
Occasionally policymakers and activists will talk about how the justice system needs to keep mentally ill people out of prisons. If it did that, prisons would be very empty indeed.
The largest study to date of recent military and veteran suicides has identified two high-risk groups of former troops who are generally ineligible for the psychiatric care afforded to all others who served: those forced out of the military for misconduct and those who enlisted but were quickly discharged for other problems.
I joined Tinder. I did not plan to date while tapering off antidepressants, benzos and sleeping pills. But nor did I plan to go through a breakup.
What does anxiety mean to you? Is it the low-level feeling of stress and fear, motivating you to be productive for fear of missing a deadline?
Families living with autism are hopeful new evidence revealed by scientists at Hofstra University will lead to life-changing treatments.