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News Articles: mental illness

Brain activity from an unnamed ECT patient is recorded and printed out onto a chart for doctors to review. The induced seizure is represented by the spikes in the horizontal lines. (Special to The Macon Newsroom)

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  • Health

Middle Georgia hospital uses electricity to treat depression

Gerald Miles'  anxiety and depression was constant and crippling. Modern treatments weren't helping. But electroconvulsive therapy, an older, controversial method, did.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Laura Corley
Mark Rosenberg, the former director of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, poses for a photo outside his Atlanta home on June 28, 2016.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: When will it end? Dr. Mark Rosenberg discusses gun safety as a public health issue

Friday on Political Rewind: public health leader Mark Rosenberg frames gun safety as a public health issue. 

May 27, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 2 more
New research finds that previous studies of mental illness using brain scans may be too small for the results to be reliable.

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  • Health

Brain scans may reveal a lot about mental illness, but not until studies get bigger

Scientists are using MRI scans to understand how mental illness shows up in the bran. But new research raises concerns that existing studies are not reliable because the sample sizes are too small.

April 26, 2022
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
Above: Three screengrabs from the video showing a woman chained to a wall in a doorless shed in a rural village in China. It got nearly 2 billion views and has prompted a heated discussion about the trafficking of women.

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  • Global Health

The mystery of the chained woman in China

A video showed her chained inside a shed. It got nearly 2 billion clicks and sparked a national debate over her identity, whether she is mentally ill — and whether she was trafficked as a bride.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Aowen Cao and
  • Emily Feng
Eleanor Cole, Ph.D., demonstrates the treatment on trial participant Deirdre Lehman in May 2019 at the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab.

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  • Health

An experimental depression treatment uses electric currents to bring relief

The remedy is a new type of transcranial magnetic stimulation that's showing good results in just five days of treatment. For some patients, it's life-changing.

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • Lesley McClurg
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday at the federal correctional complex in Terre Haute, Ind. The stay lets the court conduct a competency hearing to assess her mental state.

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  • National

Government Appeals Stay Of Execution For Only Female On Federal Death Row

Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, and would be the U.S. government's first execution of a female inmate in more than 67 years.

January 12, 2021
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By:
  • Cheryl Corley
Rulennis Munoz (center right) outside Lancaster Courthouse Oct. 14, after learning that the police officer who fatally shot her brother had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the Lancaster County District Attorney. Her mother, Miguelina Peña, and her attorney Michael Perna (far right) stood by.

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  • Health

During A Mental Health Crisis, A Family's Call To 911 Turns Tragic

A mother in Lancaster, Pa., tried for years to help her grown son get consistent treatment for schizophrenia. Then, hoping to get him involuntarily committed for care, the family called the police.

October 29, 2020
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By:
  • Brett Sholtis

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  • Health

Psychiatrist: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

Dr. Christine Montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Her new book is Waiting for an Echo.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • Dave Davies
GPB News NPR

Break It Down: Schizophrenia

Georgia Tech researchers hope to get a clearer picture of what schizophrenia does to the brain. Two biomedical engineers there have developed a tool to...

February 26, 2020
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers
Attorney Edward Ahmed Mitchell (left) discusses on July 24 what Aisha Hussein saw when she and family members watched the April 28 police dashcam footage of her younger sister's shooting.

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  • Mental Health

Sister Speaks After Watching Footage Of Johns Creek Police Shooting

In April, two Johns Creek police officers shot a woman they said had a knife. Shukri Said’s family recently watched dashcam footage of the shooting that...

July 30, 2018
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
A Johns Creek woman died Saturday after a police shooting.

'Mental Illness Should Never Be Death Sentence,' Says Civil Rights Group

A 36-year-old woman was shot and killed by police in Johns Creek Saturday morning, officials said. Police said the family of Shukri Said called 911...

July 26, 2018
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge

On Second Thought For Monday, May 21, 2018

The United States Department of Justice estimates nearly two-thirds of all jail inmates have mental health problems. In Georgia, a new investigation...

May 21, 2018
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By:
  • Sean Powers
From left to right: Jim Galloway, Greg Bluestein, Jackie Cushman, Bill Nigut, and Teresa Tomlinson.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind At The State Capitol For Crossover Day

On this edition of Political Rewind, we are live from the Georgia State Capitol for Crossover Day. Which crucial bills will die and which will live to...

February 28, 2018
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By:
  • Bill Nigut

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