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    José's son, who has schizophrenia, recently got into a fight that resulted in a broken window — an out-of-control moment from his struggle with mental illness. And it could increase his chances of deportation to a country where mental health care is e
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    A Young Immigrant Has Mental Illness, And That's Raising His Risk of Being Deported

    Nov 17, 2019
    Behavioral problems, criminal arrests and limited access to health care leave a father worried that his 21-year-old son will be deported to Mexico.
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    Psychiatry's shift toward seeing mental health problems as an illness to be treated with a pill hasn't always served patients well, says Harvard historian and author Anne Harrington.
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    How Drug Companies Helped Shape A Shifting, Biological View Of Mental Illness

    May 02, 2019
    Mind Fixers, by historian Anne Harrington, takes a hard look at the ways the marketing of a new pill to treat a mental disorder can change the way the condition is defined and treated.
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    A major study published Monday finds that widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs like haloperidol are no more effective than a placebo for treating delirium.
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    Antipsychotic Drugs Don't Ease ICU Delirium Or Dementia

    Oct 22, 2018
    Though widely prescribed in hospital intensive care units to treat hallucinations and other signs of delirium, Haldol and similar drugs are no better than a placebo for such patients, a study finds.
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    A cell in the Champaign County Jail that's sometimes used to house inmates who are suicidal. For the inmates' own safety, jail officials say, they may be placed alone in the cell with nothing but a mat and a garment that cannot be used to cause self-harm
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    County Jails Struggle To Treat Mentally Ill Inmates

    Sep 19, 2018
    Getting mental health treatment to inmates who need it requires money and unprecedented collaboration between state and county departments of criminal justice and social services. Is it working?
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    An average of 13,776 inmates in 45 California counties were on psychotropic medications in 2016-2017, a recent report found. That is up from 10,999 five years ago.
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    Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California

    May 04, 2018
    Amid a severe shortage of psychiatric beds and community-based treatment throughout the state and nation, county jails have become repositories for people in the throes of acute mental health crises.
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    The scientists tested tissue samples from the brains of deceased patients who suffered from autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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    Major Psychiatric Disorders Have More In Common Than We Thought, Study Finds

    Feb 08, 2018
    Understanding the molecular basis of major disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and bipolar is hopeful, because it could help in developing better treatments for them.
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    A provision in the bill proposed by the GOP Senate would permit Medicaid to pay for longer stints of inpatient psychiatric care. But other parts of the bill would strip $772 billion from Medicaid — the single-largest funder of care for people who have
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    Senate Health Bill Could Both Boost And Undercut Mental Health Funding

    Jul 08, 2017
    The draft health care bill has a provision meant to increase the availability of inpatient psychiatric care. But overall cuts to Medicaid could actually lead to even fewer psychiatric beds nationwide.
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    Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and media critic, wrote <em>Flags of our Fathers</em>, which was adapted into a film by Clint Eastwood.
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    Father Of 2 Sons With Schizophrenia Talks Of His Struggle To Save Them

    Mar 20, 2017
    "There is no greater ... feeling of helplessness than to watch two beloved sons deteriorate before [your] eyes," says Ron Powers. His new book is No One Cares About Crazy People.
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    This image is from lab-grown brain tissue — a minibrain — infected by Zika virus (white) with neural stem cells in red and neuronal nuclei in green.
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    'Minibrains' Could Help Drug Discovery For Zika And For Alzheimer's

    Nov 13, 2016
    Each lab-grown cluster of human cells fits on a pin's head, but contains some of the cell types and circuitry of a real brain. The structures already are offering insights into how Zika attacks.
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    St. Dymphna is said to have fled to Geel from Ireland, where she helped care for people with mental illness.
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    For Centuries, A Small Town Has Embraced Strangers With Mental Illness

    Jul 01, 2016
    Families struggle to find a safe, therapeutic place for loved ones with serious mental disorders. In Geel, Belgium, residents have brought mentally ill strangers into their homes for centuries.
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    Rachel Star Withers says that talking about her schizophrenia on YouTube has helped her. Some people who see the videos say the videos help them, too.
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    How YouTube Videos Help People Cope With Mental Illness

    Jun 13, 2016
    People with schizophrenia say it helps them cope when they see others talking about the experience online. Their friends and family members say it gives them insight into that hidden world.
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    Kelly Suter (left), a nurse with International Medical Corps, counsels a survivor of the earthquake that devastated Nepal last April.
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    A Son In Chains. A Depressed Mom. Here's What Helped

    Apr 15, 2016
    Two real-life stories show why funding for mental health care is critical — in every country.
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    C4 proteins (green) are seen at the synapses in a culture of human neurons. (Heather de Rivera/McCarroll Lab/Harvard via AP)
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    Variations In A Gene Provide Clues About Schizophrenia

    Jan 29, 2016
    Scientists studied the genomes of more than 64,000 people and found that those with the debilitating psychiatric disease were much more likely to possess mutations of a particular gene.
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    Jonathan Keleher talks with a colleague, Rafael Wainhaus, at work. Keleher was born without a cerebellum, but his brain has developed work-arounds for solving problems of balance and abstract thought.
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    Clues To Autism, Schizophrenia Emerge From Cerebellum Research

    Mar 16, 2015
    The brain's cerebellum helps shape thinking and emotion, as well as physical coordination, research shows. Could stimulating that part of the brain help ease some aspects of autism and schizophrenia?
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    High-end marijuana buds on sale at a Denver dispensary.
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    Pot Can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms For Some, But Do The Effects Last?

    Mar 06, 2015
    Scientists are sharply divided on whether the disordered thinking and paranoia sometimes caused by marijuana is just a temporary thing or the start of long-term disorders like schizophrenia.
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