Behavioral Health

With approximately one in 10 Americans having a problem with addiction, the odds are that someone at your holiday celebration this year struggles with substance abuse.

Imagine for a moment your childhood memories included living in a bomb shelter for years, watching your 2-year-old sister die in your arms.

Our 9-year-old son has recently been battling insomnia, lying awake each night until 10 or 11 p.m. The rare nights he falls asleep easily ...

People just don't seem to understand the way I think, so when they can follow my train of thought, it feels like I have superpowers.

I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...

Vanessa Hazzard and Iresha Picot want more people of color to feel comfortable talking about mental health care. Statistics show t ...

After two years of progress reducing how often Pennsylvania kids on Medicaid are prescribed psychiatric medications, the state is offerin ...

“I feel like I have to re-prove myself every time I go to the doctor” — a patient and a health policy expert weigh in on Am ...

Chelsea Silver has been meditating for more than four years. She’s kind of a meditation pro, and she’s only in the fourth gra ...

A new initiative is trying to combine resources for all organizations serving young men of color. One of the goals is to bring attention ...

As companies begin to think more critically about how to attract and retain job candidates on the autism spectrum, SAP, a global software ...

Anti-anxiety sedatives such as Ativan, Xanax and Valium may not be as safe as once thought. Known as benzodiazepines, the drugs wo ...

New research has found that transgender children who receive social and family support during their transition do not suffer from a highe ...

Just 10 psychiatrists are available for every 100,000 people in Pennsylvania, and they tend to cluster in urban areas. Some don’t a ...

Scientists have discovered that implicit racial bias may diminish when people are reminded of shared group identities. The researc ...