Mental Health

Headlines split on England's ADHD and autism review because the report says two things at once. Here is which sentences are findings, which are recommendations and which the government has promised.

The drowsiness that arrives every October has more to do with light than temperature, and the warm room may be doing more harm than the cold outside.

Patients told plainly that their pills contain no medicine still report real relief. The effect is genuine, but it has limits worth understanding.

Summer-pattern seasonal affective disorder is the lesser-known, agitated opposite of winter depression -- real enough for NIMH's diagnostic criteria, but still short on answers about its cause.

"Popcorn brain" isn't a medical diagnosis, but the dopamine-driven attention pattern it describes is one clinicians take seriously. Here's what the evidence actually supports.

Born in the 1960s and early 1970s, today's middle-aged Americans report more loneliness, depression and memory trouble than the generation before, a 17-country study finds.