mental illness

California Governor Orders State Officials To Remove Homeless Encampments

Trump would like to bring back mental institutions, but experts are skeptical

9:00am November 13, 2024

Permanent tent cities are another idea Trump has for dealing with people who are unhoused. Sequestering people with mental illness or substance abuse in one place has been tried, an expert says, and "it turns into hell on earth."

Gregg Martin, author of 'Bipolar General,' at his home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.

The self-proclaimed 'Bipolar General' is waging war on the stigma of mental illness

5:01am January 17, 2024

by Quil Lawrence

Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin led troops in Iraq while a second battle front opened inside his own mind. Now retired, he's fighting to break down the military taboo on getting help.

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Health & Safety

Montana inmates with mental illness languish in jail awaiting treatment before trial

5:00am October 03, 2023

by Aaron Bolton

A long waiting list at Montana's only state-run psychiatric hospital has left inmates untreated and stuck in county jails. To fix it, health officials want changes to involuntary commitment laws.

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This video still shows a view of one person's cerebral cortex. Pink areas have above-average activity; blue areas have below-average activity.

A decoder that uses brain scans to know what you mean — mostly

4:26pm May 01, 2023

by Jon Hamilton

Scientists have decoded streams of words in the brain using artificial intelligence and the data from MRI scans.

New research finds that previous studies of mental illness using brain scans may be too small for the results to be reliable.

Brain scans may reveal a lot about mental illness, but not until studies get bigger

5:01am April 26, 2022

by Jon Hamilton

Scientists are using MRI scans to understand how mental illness shows up in the bran. But new research raises concerns that existing studies are not reliable because the sample sizes are too small.

Three screen grabs from a video that recently went viral in China show a woman chained to a wall in a doorless shed in a rural Chinese village. The video got nearly 2 billion views and has prompted a heated discussion about the trafficking of women.

Health & Safety

The mystery of the chained woman in China

8:15pm February 17, 2022

A video shows her chained inside a shed. It got nearly 2 billion clicks and has sparked a national debate over her identity, whether she is mentally ill — and whether she was trafficked as a bride.

Eleanor Cole, Ph.D., demonstrates the treatment on trial participant Deirdre Lehman in May 2019 at the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab.

Health & Safety

An experimental depression treatment uses electric currents to bring relief

6:01am February 06, 2022

by Lesley McClurg

The remedy is a new type of transcranial magnetic stimulation that's showing good results in just five days of treatment. For some patients, it's life-changing.

Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday at the federal correctional complex in Terre Haute, Ind. The stay lets the court conduct a competency hearing to assess her mental state.

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Government Appeals Stay Of Execution For Only Female On Federal Death Row

3:16pm January 12, 2021

by Cheryl Corley

Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, and would be the U.S. government's first execution of a female inmate in more than 67 years.

Rulennis Munoz (center right) outside Lancaster Courthouse Oct. 14, after learning that the police officer who fatally shot her brother had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Lancaster County District Attorney. Her mother, Miguelina Peña, and her

Health & Safety

During A Mental Health Crisis, A Family's Call To 911 Turns Tragic

5:00am October 29, 2020

by Brett Sholtis

A mother in Lancaster, Pa., tried for years to help her grown son get consistent treatment for schizophrenia. Then, hoping to get him involuntarily committed for care, the family called the police.

Waiting for an Echo, by Christine Montross

Psychiatrist: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

3:42pm July 16, 2020

by Dave Davies

Dr. Christine Montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Her new book is Waiting for an Echo.

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