2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (368+ words) | Newswise Newswise History Is Made: Georgia Allows Counselors to Practice Across State Lines Alexandria, Va. (June 2, 2026) " As part of the historic interstate Counseling Compact agreement, Georgia is the latest state that can now start granting privileges to licensed professional counselors…...

20+ hour, 24+ min ago  (260+ words) Postpartum psychosis affects approximately 1 in 1, 000 mothers and is considered a psychiatric emergency because of the elevated risk of suicide and infanticide. Symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, severe mood changes, confusion, and disorganized behavior. This condition has historically been understudied, particularly…...

2+ week, 14+ min ago  (472+ words) Twenty percent of women experience mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, during pregnancy and the first year of parenthood." Kara Zivin, a professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan, is part of this…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (778+ words) Newswise " Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the most commonly prescribed medications for anxiety and depression in children and adolescents"but finding the right drug and dose often involves weeks or months of trial and error. Pharmacogenomic testing, which uses…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (587+ words) A new multisite study published May 12 in Nature Mental Health found that using cannabis and tobacco together increases the risk of developing psychotic disorders like schizophrenia among those considered high risk." "The prevalence of cannabis and tobacco use, known as…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (470+ words) Early-stage studies of medications to treat high-risk alcohol use may be missing opportunities to identify potential therapeutic effects in certain populations, including women and people at risk for relapse, according to a systematic review published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (302+ words) Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive, FDA-approved therapy that uses brief magnetic pulses to treat depression, particularly in patients who do not respond to medication. Yet scientists have long struggled to understand how it works at the level of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (318+ words) Newswise " DALLAS (SMU) " Most people know depression as a disorder of sadness. But for millions of patients, the most debilitating feature is something else entirely: the reduced or inability to feel positive emotions. "There's a difference between feeling helpless and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (534+ words) | Newswise'Newswise Can Robotic Moxibustion Recover the Depressive Mood? Newswise " Methamphetamine withdrawal is often manifested not only by physical changes, but also by depression, anxiety, drug craving, and sleep disturbance. The paper notes that depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among methamphetamine…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (622+ words) A robot-assisted form of heat-sensitive moxibustion may offer a new, non-drug way to support people recovering from methamphetamine dependence while experiencing depressive symptoms. In a randomized controlled trial, patients who received the heat-sensitive moxibustion robot therapy alongside routine rehabilitation showed…...