Mental health
Worldwide, mental-health problems — such as depression, anxiety and substance-use disorders — are responsible for more years lost to disability than any other health condition is. The toll is exacted not just on the health and well-being of patients, but also on their families and on society around them. This collection brings together different facets of mental-health coverage, from original research to reviews of the latest science to in-depth journalism on public-health issues and first-hand accounts of the experience of mental illness.
Addiction treatments suffer from high relapse rates, but now cutting edge work in neuroscience hopes to combat relapse through memory modification. Nature (24 June 2015)
Schizophrenia: What's in my head?
When she's experiencing hallucinations, artist Sue Morgan feels compelled to draw; to 'get it out of her head'. Nature (02 April 2014)
Sometimes, the brain perceives things that aren't there. These hallucinations are the subject of Oliver Sacks' latest book, packed full of case histories and including some of his own hallucinatory experiences. Hear Oliver in conversation with Kerri Smith in this Podcast Extra. Nature (26 October 2012)
