An incident in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, where three minor sisters — aged 12, 14 and 16 — jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor of their apartment, has raised serious questions about teenage ...

Addiction science is at an impasse. Rates of addiction remain high. Translational results from decades of research conducted within the dominant brain disease paradigm are shockingly meager. Meanwhile ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988 to connect with a trained ...

Signs that an individual might be on the verge of self-harm are often found in their online actions, but can word choices in posts indicate who is at particular risk and when? The results also ...

Virginia Tech scientist Sora Shin (right) of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and postdoctoral associate Jane Jung found that early-life trauma changes a brain circuit linked to both ...

Instagram will start alerting parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short period of time, the company announced on Thursday. The alerts ...

Victor Garcia, 34, died following roughly 20 incidents of escalating self-harm inside Wisconsin’s prison system. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections does not comprehensively track self-harm ...