The Wild West is often remembered for gunfighters, outlaws, and lawless frontier towns. But hidden behind that violent ...

Epigenetic programming from prolonged undernutrition and terror can persist 3–4 generations, plausibly contributing to elevated cardiometabolic and mental health burdens documented among Irish cohorts ...

Therapy dogs from the nonprofit Go Team give first responders, dispatchers a chance to decompress from the emotional toll of emergency calls ...

More than three years after a woman was pushed to her death in front of an approaching New York City subway, a New York congressman is making a renewed push for legislation to expand access to mental ...

Psychiatric hospitals and asylums of days past are sure to get a shiver or two out of anyone. The dark and disturbing history of outdated mental health practices, the gloomy cells echoing with the ...

The owner of a Vermont silent retreat says U.S. Forest Service logging next door has shattered the quiet and led her to relocate. The Green Mountain National Forest logging is ...

Pennhurst opened its doors as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, which is possibly the most insensitive name in the history of institutional names, and ...

Hidden in plain sight in St. Joseph, Missouri, there’s a museum that most people have never heard of, and once you learn ...