A NURSE has survived on potatoes for the last 20 years due to a rare eating disorder. Jodie Shaw, 29, has been living on a diet of roast potatoes, mash potatoes, fries and jacket potatoes since ...

A 15-year-old girl with a condition that makes it hard to talk says she wants to fulfil her dream of performing on stage. Scarlett, from Flintshire, has selective mutism, a severe anxiety disorder ...

Counsellors, psychologists and therapists – these mental health practitioners’ roles and methods explained. Read more at ...

Tryptophan is necessary to help build many peptides and proteins in the body, supporting many biological functions.

Parents say their special needs kids aren't getting services defined in individualized education programs and have unqualified instructors.

"She used to be very terrified of tornadoes ... so I made her sit down and learn everything there was to learn about ...

Some behaviors may seem harmless, but they can profoundly shape the minds of the youngest. Should we be concerned about the ...

A recent longitudinal study, the first of its kind, finds that parental narcissism predicts childhood mental illness.

The lawsuit states the district failed "to keep a special needs student safe from the physical abuse and degrading conduct of its staff." ...

Social anxiety disorder is sustained, in part, by distorted thoughts about oneself and the belief that one needs to be ...

Boys are experiencing record levels of mental ill health, but for girls, the story is darker still. Aged 11, the incidence of ...

A wearable, non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) that quickly measures neural activity while the user plays through a ...