Steve Emt was a walk-on basketball player at the University of Connecticut before a drunk driving accident changed the direction of his life.

People with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder die on average 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population. The main causes of this are cardiovascular and ...

There is something almost paradoxical about describing a paralyzed and bedridden man's cheerfulness as heroic.

La depresión como encrucijada existencial By Lisandro Prieto Femenía, educator, writer, and philosopher "The struggle itself toward the ...

We often discuss depression and dementia separately, although scientists have long observed a connection between the two: People with depression appear to have a higher likelihood of developing ...

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of ...

In a first, this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a brain stimulation device designed to treat depression at home. The approval of the first such device for home depression ...

Bristol Palin feels more confident and closer to her faith one year after she developed the mystery condition. “Happy one year since my face first went paralyzed,” she told her Instagram followers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 40-year-old mom of two was finally diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Chiari malformation, rare disorders that can lead ...

A marine veteran had her debilitating symptoms dismissed by doctors before she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain disorder. Ciera Buzzell, a 40-year-old from Warrenton, Virginia, had ...

The 40-year-old mom of two was finally diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Chiari malformation, rare disorders that can lead to paralysis A marine veteran had her debilitating symptoms dismissed ...

For decades, we’ve divided health into neat categories: mental health on one side, physical health on the other. The brain over here. The heart over there. Different specialists. Different ...