The funny Super Bowl commercial starring William Shatner is valuable for illustrating how to healthily embrace jokes about one's name.

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A psychologist explains the evolutionary and psychological roots of laughter, and what an infant’s giggles teach us about how adults bond.

North Carolina’s three state-run psychiatric hospitals — Cherry, Central Regional and Broughton — serve about 570 patients each day. But hundreds more who need inpatient treatment wait weeks — even ...

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A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients, finding that many conditions involve similar genes and may not need ...

The first state-run psychiatric hospital will open next summer under the direction of UT Southwestern Medical Center in the heart of Dallas' Medical District. It will include an adult and pediatric ...

AUSTIN — UT Southwestern Medical Center has been chosen to run the first state psychiatric hospital in Dallas. It’s expected to ease severe shortages in psychiatric beds, shorten waitlists and reduce ...

AUSTIN — The first state psychiatric hospital in Dallas will open next summer under the direction of the UT Southwestern Medical Center, a national leader in mental health care, after months of ...

Lamar Brown went through a rigorous program at a New York State psychiatric hospital aimed at stopping the “revolving door” for homeless people with mental illness. By Andy Newman Lamar Brown was one ...

A Burger King sign reads, "WHY WORK FOR A CLOWN WHEN YOU CAN WORK FOR A KING?" The sign is outside a restaurant, with trees, cars, and a gas station in the background. Sometimes the best part of ...