By Paul Gionfriddo, MHA President and CEO The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton are yet another chilling reminder of the changed nation in which we all live. When the Columbine shootings occurred twenty years ago,...

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By Kelly Davis, DIrector of Peer Advocacy, Supports, and Services at Mental Health America Go to Source Author:...

Dr. Deanna Barch will describe how sports involvement interacted with sex to predict depressive symptoms, and also how sports involvement was positively correlated with hippocampal volume in both boys and girls....

By Paul Gionfriddo, MHA President and CEO As more stories of the horrors of child detention camps emerge, compassion, concern, and respect for human life should compel leaders across the nation to speak out. Adults and...

This meeting is intended for ALACRITY Center/Core Directors and investigators conducting or interested in conducting intervention or mental health services research. Go to Source Author: National Institute of Mental...

Dr. Niko Kriegeskorte, a computational neuroscientist from the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University, discusses the challenges of deriving insight into the principles of brain function using fMRI and other...

In this webinar, Dr. Lisa Horowitz reviews how to conducts suicide risk screening with the ASQ tool. This training is for nurses. Go to Source Author: National Institute of Mental...

In this Director’s message, Dr. Gordon digs into the historical roots of the hippocampus and the role it plays in human memory – an example of how scientists build upon past research discoveries and, in turn, advance...

In 2017, a father from Victoria, British Columbia, pleaded for his 15-year-old daughter to seek rehabilitation for an opioid addiction. He was terrified that by... The post Opioid Addiction a Battle Between Parents and...

By: Victoria Chau, Public Health Analyst, SAMHSA Office of Behavioral Health Equity and Roslyn Holliday-Moore, Public Health Analyst, SAMHSA Office of Behavioral Health Equity Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are...

The last week has witnessed a plethora of rich conversations lead by the Mental Health Foundation about the intersection of body image and mental health. As Mental Health Awareness week comes to a close, Hannah from...

By: Anita Everett, M.D., DFAPA, Director, SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services Our population is aging. Approximately 75 million Americans will be over age 65 by 2030.  Additionally, a 2012 study from the Institute...

We asked some of our supporters what issues they felt that those of who live with mental illness still have to face and what they would like to see done to make real change happen. Go to Source...

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