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The Washington Post By Andrea Sachs December 15, 2023 Grounded pilots face lengthy waits and expensive evaluations to get back in the cockpit His story speaks to a larger problem in the profession: Many pilots would rather ignore or hide their mental health problems than disclose their condition and risk their livelihood. As a result,...   read more

The Washington Post By Donald Beaulieu December 15, 2023 Fifty years ago Friday, on Dec. 15, 1973, the board of trustees of the American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic manual of mental illnesses. Newspaper stories the next day mostly treated it as a technical change rather than a seismic shift that...   read more

The New York Times By Trip Gabriel Dec. 9, 2023 A psychiatrist and a prolific author, he criticized what he referred to as a “nonsystem” that left vulnerable people on the streets to fend for themselves. Dr. John A. Talbott, a psychiatrist who championed the care of vulnerable populations of the mentally ill, especially the...   read more

The New York Times By Noam Scheiber Dec. 3, 2023 Once accustomed to a status outside the usual management-labor hierarchy, many health professionals now feel as put upon as any clock-punching worker. Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr....   read more

The Washington Post By Richard Sima October 5, 2023 A fall check-up can help you prepare for – and potentially prevent – winter seasonal affective disorder Fall is the best time for those who suffer from winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD) to check in and prepare. Susceptible people — an estimated 5 percent of Americans — already...   read more

The New York Times By Dana G. Smith Nov. 8, 2023 Research is revealing an inextricable link between mental disorders and neurological disorders. In 2021, Sharon Niederhaus, then 77, lost her husband of more than 50 years. Her daughter, Kristin Henry, said her mother was never the same afterward. “We feel like we lost both...   read more

The Washington Post By Mark Johnson October 5, 2023 Using a host of high-tech tools to simulate brain development in a lab dish, Stanford University researchers have discovered several dozen genes that interfere with crucial steps in the process and may lead to autism, a spectrum of disorders that affects about one inevery 36 Americans, impairing their ability...   read more

The Washington Post By Caitlin Gibson October 24, 2023 For years, Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College, has been closely following two disturbing trends: the dwindling of independent activity and play afforded to children over the past half-century, and the accelerating rise in mental health disorders and suicides among youth...   read more