mental health

Psychiatry professor Marco Iacoboni writes about the role empathy-generating mirror neurons play in creating feelings of community in our collective sports fandom.

By temporarily inactivating a part of the brain involved in impulse control, the researchers discovered compelling evidence that humans are predisposed to be generous to others.

War correspondent and former U.S. Marine David J. Morris discusses his book in a Friends of the Semel Institute Open Mind Lecture.

The director of the UCLA Gambling Studies program on why people (even non-gamblers) bet so much on the Super Bowl, whether office pools are “gateway drugs” to more serious gambling, and how to recognize problem gambling.

Study of more than 7,000 students in 77 elementary schools found that one program greatly benefited the mental health of sixth-graders who experienced the most bullying.

The research revealed the first evidence that trigeminal nerve stimulation, or TNS, helps provide relief from chronic post-traumatic stress.

Findings suggest that oversharing personal emotions or information violates the unwritten rules of social media websites.

People who become targets of discrimination can suffer effects ranging from low self-esteem to a higher risk for developing stress-related disorders such as anxiety and depression.

UCLA researchers say that results suggest a possible mental health benefit for some people who have the weight loss surgery.

Lavretsky found that combining the stimulant Ritalin with the antidepressant Celexa was more effective for treating depression in the elderly than an antidepressant alone or Ritalin alone.

The founding director of UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center is now vice chancellor for UCLA Health Sciences and chief executive officer of UCLA Health. And he’s still in awe of the brain and its complicated choreography.

UCLA Newsroom revisits some of our favorite news items from the year. Publishing resumes on Jan. 4.

Getting a diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorder as early as possible is important for early intervention.

The troupe performs on Jan. 20, 5 p.m. at UCLA's Semel Institite Auditorium. Free.

Dec. 14-16 training program at UCLA teaches you to recognize the signs of mental health problems and crises, and to support people experiencing these problems.

Recovery has at least as much to do with rewarding oneself as it does with depriving oneself, according to a new book by a UCLA expert in addiction treatment.

The $2.3 million award will support work to develop methods for recording the activity of intact neural networks in living animals.

Dr. Peter Whybrow on regaining ourselves from a time-starved, consumer-driven society.

The effort will encompass a 100,000-person study to discover the causes of depression, a new treatment center and a community outreach program.

Men under stress provide worse emotional support to their partners than women do, an international team of psychologists reports today.

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research released the California Health Interview Survey for both 2013 and 2014, which contain data about a wide range of health care topics from surveys of more than 20,000 participants each year.

Children and adolescents who receive integrated mental health and medical treatment are 66 percent more likely to have a good outcome than those who receive more traditional primary care.

An assessment tool developed jointly by psychiatrists at UCLA and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will be the first to help identify maladaptive grief in youth between 8 and 18.

Dr. Edward Zaragoza, UCLA clinical director of imaging informatics and chief of acute care imaging, practices aerialist acts of derring-do several nights a week at the Cirque School in West Hollywood.

The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, concluded that doctors should consider prescribing the long-lasting injectable much earlier in the course of treatment than they typically do today.