Mental Health

A STAT Investigation Tara Bannow

STAT Plus: Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names

First Opinion Richard G. Frank

Psychiatrists aren’t fulfilling the social contract that subsidized their training

Politics Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: Don’t write off MDMA yet: How the FDA got on board with psychedelics

First Opinion Andrew D. Forsyth, Mallory O. Johnson, and Jae M. Sevelius

Turning a ‘no’ vote into progress: How to advance MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD

In the Lab Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Oral ketamine tablets effective for treating depression, new study finds

First Opinion Roshni Koli and Christine Yu Moutier

To reduce suicide, primary care and mental health clinicians need to work together. Congress can help that happen

Health Timmy Broderick

Supreme Court outlawed segregation of disabled people 25 years ago. But change has come slowly

In the Lab Alia Sajani

How a Baltimore neuroscience study is rewriting Black America’s relationship with medical research

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Freespira bets on slow and steady, amid spectacular digital health collapses

Health Annalisa Merelli

What’s the evidence for the surgeon general’s proposed social media warning?

Exclusive Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: The inside story of how Lykos’ MDMA research went awry

Pharma Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Psychedelics companies see FDA panel’s vote as a growth opportunity, not a roadblock

Health Annalisa Merelli

Withdrawal symptoms hit one in six patients stopping antidepressants, review finds

Pharma Olivia Goldhill and Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: FDA advisory panel votes overwhelmingly against MDMA therapy for PTSD

First Opinion Kasley Killam

Shifting the focus from loneliness to social health

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Akili, maker of a video game to treat ADHD, to be acquired for $34 million

The Readout Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcohol use disorder in real-world study

First Opinion Nadir Al-Saidi

Saving rural psychiatry services will require higher Medicaid payments

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: More tumult at BIO amid the company’s fourth CEO in four years

Pharma Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: After MDMA therapy, she considered suicide. The trial data tell a different story

First Opinion Sadie Elisseou

Addressing health care workers’ trauma can help fight burnout

First Opinion Kay Redfield Jamison

People like me with bipolar disorder must help shape research and clinical care

Health Grace Rubenstein

Mental health crisis centers and EmPATH units: offering care that busy ERs can’t

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to essays on hospital taxes, ADHD in girls and women, and more

The Readout Meghana Keshavan

STAT Plus: Amylyx’s Relvyvrio data was, as promised, disappointing

First Opinion Molly O'Shea

Kids can’t wait any longer for social media safety

First Opinion Wendy K. Chung

Autism doesn’t discriminate. Autism research shouldn’t either

First Opinion Michael Morse and Kathleen Nadeau

ADHD is often overlooked in girls and women. They need help, too

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to OTC antidepressants, personalized medicine, restoring trust in public health, and more