What to Do When Stress Interferes with Daily Functioning
Extreme stress can trigger a nervous breakdown or even a psychotic episode.
Category: Psychiatry
4 Things to Know About Psychosis in Teenagers
It can be tough to distinguish between angst and mental illness in young people, but getting help quickly is critical.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in People with Cancer
About 1 in 5 will get PTSD after a diagnosis.
Your Brain, on Electricity
Weak streams of electricity directed into the brain could help conditions such as depression, schizophrenia and chronic pain.
What to Do if a Family Member or Friend Has Psychotic Symptoms
People suffering from serious mental illness need help, quickly.
Six Ways to Help Your Child Cope with Anxiety
What parents should (and shouldn’t) do when a child struggles with worry and fear.
How Deep Brain Stimulation Helps Parkinson’s Patients
The procedure can minimize symptoms and medication dosage to a dramatic effect.
Not So Merry This Holiday Season?
It’s common to feel down or depressed this season.
UNC teams with Verily Life Sciences to study trauma recovery
The Verily Study Watch will help researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and across the country collect first-in-kind data to better understand and diagnose adverse brain outcomes after trauma.
Chronic Illness, Depression, Neurology, News, Pain, Psychiatry, PTSD, Research, Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury
Wilson honored for advocacy work on anxiety disorders
Reid Wilson, PhD, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine, was honored this week with the Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), the highest honor in the field of anxiety disorders.
New data reveal extent of genetic overlap between major mental diso...
Dr. Patrick Sullivan of UNC is a co-author of the study, which found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder share the most common genetic variation.
Autism, Genome, Innovation, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Publications, Research
Alterations in brain activity in children at risk of schizophrenia ...
Brain scans of children who have parents or siblings with the illness reveal a neural circuitry that is hyperactivated or stressed by tasks that peers with no family history of the illness seem to handle with ease.