Type “Am I paranoid?” into Google, and you might find a load of thoughtful, expert advice mixed in with a bunch of weird, not-so-helpful links. If you are worried that entering those words into a ...

On a Thursday this past July, my husband and I drove to our county’s police academy training facility. A uniformed officer let us in. We were escorted through several hallways and into a conference ...

Music therapy can improve negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as lack of motivation, reclusiveness, and isolation, according to a review of previously published literature, presented at the ...

Music therapy improves negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as lack of motivation, reclusiveness, and isolation, a new review of the literature suggests. Although the study had conflicting results ...

One evening in the fall of 2009, my son Zach, a sophomore at college, returned to our old Hollywood Hills home to study for his exams and share a spaghetti bolognese supper. "I made it just the way ...

Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which participants had to ...

The TV was talking to me. I was in the midst of a delusion that the news anchors on CNN were operatives of a shadow government run by the Clintons. Every time I crossed the living room of my father’s ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

Kody Green started having auditory and visual hallucinations, as well as paranoia and delusions, during his freshman year of college. His symptoms drove him to drug abuse that ultimately landed him in ...

It’s a frustration for both doctors who treat patients with schizophrenia and for people living with it: the most effective antipsychotic drugs have side effects, so unpleasant patients would rather ...