All adults should be screened for anxiety

About 90 % of suicides are related to mental illness. A 2015 study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry estimated that depression costs the U.S.A $210 billion a year, with 40 % of those expenses related straight to anxiety, and the rest related to indirect …See all stories on this topic

High stress levels connected to mental illness

The paper, published in the journal Existing Opinion in Psychiatry, drew together findings from a variety of current studies on anxiety, worry and anxiety in animals, brain scans of stress and anxiety in healthy humans and medical studies. Mah’s group looked …See all stories on this subject

How U of T students, researchers and alumni are working to promote mental health

Strolling for just 20 minutes a day can help ward off anxiety. Dr. Clare Discomfort is an associate teacher in the department of psychiatry and director of the mental trauma program at Mount Sinai Healthcare facility. She directs the Toronto Addis Ababa …See all stories on this topic

The Psychic Energizer!: The Serendipitous Discovery of the First Antidepressant

A drug created to eliminate the germs that causes tuberculosis was serendipitously found to enhance mood and invoke joy, a discovery that would exceptionally impact psychiatry’s method to the treatment of anxiety. This drug, iproniazid, would become …See all stories on this subject

Russian Artist Pyotr Pavlensky Transferred to Psychiatric Healthcare facility

Infamous efficiency artist Pyotr Pavlensky will go through psychiatric examination at The Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, the Mediazone news website reported on Wednesday. He has been currently transferred to the center …See all stories on this subject