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July is National Minority Mental Health Month, a critical time to confront a stark reality: while mental health challenges affect people of all backgrounds, the path to accessing care is often far ...

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Health, emotional well-being, financial, and family stress levels are associated with intracerebral hemorrhage risk after controlling for hypertension.

As a child psychiatrist, I’ve seen how often Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous children are unfairly mislabeled and ...

Dr. Compean is honored as Laredo’s best psychiatrist in the 2025 LMT Readers’ Choice Awards, highlighting his dedication to ...

An Industry of Death exhibit draws crowds in the township of Zithobeni, in Gauteng, South Africa, spotlighting psychiatry's ...

In OSA, oxygen desaturation respiratory events during REM sleep occur more often in Black adults, especially Black women, than in White adults.

Her new book, “Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake” declares this finding: “there was no other group in American mental hospitals in the late nineteenth ...

It has not been kind to Black people, at all,” said Dr. Russell Ledet, a resident in pediatrics, psychiatry and fellow in child psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine.

The need for skilled psychiatrists — or “shrinks” — is more evident than ever, and Black professionals are rising to the occasion with expertise and empathy.

But they weren’t the only ones to wield psychiatry to repress and control. “Punitive” or “political” psychiatry has proven to be quite a useful tool in many parts of the world.