<div id="subtitle">'Mad Pride' movement champions Minnesota man who wants right to refuse electroshock treatments</div><div><p>The court order authorizing electroshock treatments for Ray Sandford says that when he arrived at a psychiatric hospital early last year, he was "grossly psychotic" and violent toward staff and other patients.&lt ...

Mental Challenges That Seniors Face By Glenda Clements The vast majority of older adults function very well in their later year but at the same time, some older adults develop mental challenges. I'm going to review the major mental health problems in this article that older adults may face, and what can be done to address those problems. I ...

NIMH-funded researchers have discovered how lithium likely fixes body clocks gone awry, stabilizing sleep-wake cycles and other daily rhythms disturbed along with mood in bipolar disorder. By blocking an enzyme, lithium, a natural salt, stabilizes a receptor that serves as a pivotal link in the clocks' intricate workings, report Peter Klein, M.D., and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania ...

NIMH recently approved funding to test the effectiveness of an early intervention in children at high risk for developing bipolar disorder. Though early in the research process, the long-term goal of this study is to reduce or delay the development of bipolar disorder in at-risk youth, heading off the effects of the disorder before it disrupts healthy development and functioning ...