Psychiatry

A majority of Missourians sent to restrictive nursing homes because of mental illness would be better served in a less restrictive setting, a year-and-a-half federal investigation determined.

Though psilocybin is a Schedule 1 drug, many see opportunities to use it as a treatment for different mental illnesses.

Dr. Dale Anderson discusses the benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy on "St. Louis on the Air."

An estimated 30% of Missouri youth in foster care or group homes are on psychotropic drugs of some sort — nearly twice the national average for kids that…

In 2009, New York Post reporter Susannah Cahalan suddenly experienced hallucinations, paranoia, seizures and catatonia. She was misdiagnosed for a month…

Two national child advocacy organizations have filed a federal lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Social Services, alleging that children in the…

A St. Louis neurosurgeon is helping to pioneer a new treatment for severe obsessive compulsive disorder that involves implanting a device sometimes called…

BJC HealthCare took over operations of a 25-bed, psychiatric acute-care hospital near the West End neighborhood in St. Louis on Wednesday. BJC officials…

Clinical depression is called the world’s number one mental disorder and ranks only behind heart disease as the country’s most disabling condition. It is…

Washington University School of Medicine has received a $20 million donation to establish a new center for psychiatric research.The Taylor Family…