Community Convenes To Trade Ideas On Mental Health Care
Mental health was the focus of this year's community conversation hosted by 88.5 WFDD, held at The Barn at Reynolda Village.
Mental Health
Important, But Not Easy: How To Open Up About Mental Health
Mental health can be tough to talk about. The stigma that's still attached to mental illness can cause someone who may need help to stay quiet.
For Some Patients With Mental Illness, The Road To Recovery Begins With Peer Support
When it comes to treating mental illness, there's a clinical approach: getting a diagnosis, the right medication, and therapy.
A New Generation Overthrows Gender
Parents, schools and elected officials are working to catch up and adapt to the needs of children and teens who don't fit into familiar gender categories.
Those TV Drug Ads Distract Us From The Medical Care We Need
Doctors spend lots of time answering questions about the latest drug ad, and that means less time answering questions that could really help your health, a primary care physician says.
A Haunting '60s Film About Mental Illness And Incarceration Becomes A Ballet
Frederick Wiseman's controversial 1967 documentary Titicut Follies exposed conditions at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts. Fifty years later, the filmmaker, now 87, has adapted it to dance.
Scientists Hunt Hard Evidence On How Cop Cameras Affect Behavior
Police departments in about 95 percent of cities nationally have put wearable cameras on officers, or soon plan to. But do these body cameras make neighborhoods safer? Scientists want to find out.
Welcome To The Poison Garden: Medicine's Medieval Roots
One corner of the garden of Alnwick Castle in northern England grows a hundred plants behind lock and key. Many of the toxic species there were used by medieval doctors — nasty plants adapted to heal.
'Minibrains' In A Dish Shed A Little Light On Autism And Epilepsy
Experiments with small clusters of networked brain cells are helping scientists see how real brains develop normally, and what goes awry when cells have trouble making connections.
Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward
Dr. Elizabeth Ford treated mentally ill inmates in New York City for more than a decade. It was almost universal, she says, that they had suffered abuse or significant neglect as children.