Mental Health Awareness

The fierce stigma associated with mental illness, including depression, prevents many people from seeking diagnosis and treatment. Learn what is being done and how you can help.

Clinical or major depression, with its harrowing feelings of sadness, hopelessness, pessimism, loss of interest in life, and reduced emotional well-being, is one of the most common and debilitating mental disorders.

People with bipolar disorder, previously known as manic-depressive illness, usually experience episodes of deep depression and manic highs.

Considered the most common mental illnesses, anxiety disorders affect an estimated 18 percent of the adult population in a given year, or 40 million Americans.

Turning off a group of cells in the mouse brain can produce behaviors relevant to schizophrenia.

Marked by disturbances in thinking, cognition, emotional reactions, and social behavior, schizophrenia usually results in chronic illness and personality change.

One of the most common and least understood neurobiological disorders, Tourette syndrome is an inherited disorder that affects about 200,000 Americans. Males are affected three to four times as often as females.

Until now, there have been few treatment options to combat PTSD. However, new basic science and clinical research on the biological basis of fear suggests promising new therapeutic avenues.