(July 7, 2021) Women with serious mental illness face unique challenges related to the intersection of their illness and gender. This is true in many aspects of their daily lives, including […]
07 July 2021 (June 30, 2021) Research Roundup is a monthly public service of the Office of Research and Public Affairs. Each edition describes a striking new data point about severe mental illness […]
30 June 2021 (June 24, 2021) People with severe mental illness have high rates of co-morbid serious medical illnesses, such as cancer and heart failure, contributing to the 25-year gap in life expectancy […]
24 June 2021 Women in rural jails are more likely to screen positive for a serious mental illness compared to men in rural jails and all individuals incarcerated in urban jails, according a […]
23 June 2021 (June 9, 2021) People with severe mental illness are especially vulnerable to being victimized. Such victimization can involve theft of clothing or money, violence, sexual assault or emotional abuse. Women who have severe […]
09 June 2021 (June 2, 2021) Inequalities in smoking behaviors between people with severe mental illness and people without continued to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published in BJ Psych […]
02 June 2021 Editor’s note: In honor of May being Mental Health Awareness month, we are featuring guest Research Weekly blogs written by members of Active Minds, a non-profit organization focused on young adult […]
19 May 2021 Editor’s note: In honor of May being Mental Health Awareness month, we are featuring guest Research Weekly blogs written by members of Active Minds, a non-profit organization focused on young adult […]
12 May 2021 (May 5, 2021) Last week, the United States Census Bureau released its official U.S. population estimate after undertaking a count of every single person living in the United States, a procedure that […]
05 May 2021 (April 28, 2021) Research Roundup is a monthly public service of the Office of Research and Public Affairs. Each edition describes a striking new data point about severe mental illness and summarizes […]
28 April 2021 (April 21, 2021) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made headlines last week with newly released data showing that suicide deaths decreased overall in 2020, despite dire predictions of […]
21 April 2021 (April 7, 2021) Yesterday, Treatment Advocacy Center founder Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, along with co-authors Wendy Simmons, Elizabeth Sinclair Hancq and John Snook, published an article in Psychiatric Services on the continuing decline of clinical […]
07 April 2021 (March 31, 2021) Research Roundup is a monthly public service of the Office of Research and Public Affairs. Each edition describes a striking new data point about serious mental illness and summarizes recently […]
31 March 2021 (March 17, 2021) Exactly one year ago this week, I published the first of what would turn out to be many Research Weekly blogs on COVID-19 and severe mental illness. In the blog titled “A special edition in […]
17 March 2021 (March 10, 2021) Today, just over 18% of the United States population have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 9.4% are fully vaccinated. While the vaccines […]
10 March 2021