What are the psychological and health effects of exposure to traumatic events like the Boston Marathon bombing and Colorado theatre shooting?

Lindsay Nicholson, who was back at her job just days after her husband's death, says Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg has made the right choice.

The number of synthetic cannabis users seeking mental health care halved after legal controls were imposed and have become rare since all products were ordered off shelves.

Can mindfulness lessons really help children keep calm and carry on? You bet, says Alice Smellie - and it's like a breath of fresh air.

Workers around the globe have been finding it harder to juggle the demands of work and the rest of life in the past five years, a new report shows.

South Auckland is to have a new facility built for patients suffering acute mental illness, at a cost of $53.6 million.

Sleeping with socks on might be a nice way to fall asleep for some people. For others, however, having them on in bed is the stuff of nightmares.

One in six New Zealand adults will be affected by mental health issues and it is the third-leading cause of health loss in this country. Not since the Christchurch earthquakes has a cause stirred the collective conscience of so many Kiwis, nor inspired so

Wine tastes better if it is thought to be expensive due to a physical change in the brain, according to a study.

New Zealanders are happier than their rivals from across the ditch, according to a new report released today.

Why would people who were not immediately or directly affected by big events have such a long-lasting sense of knowing exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news? These recollections are called flashbulb memories.

A transgender woman who was a former national Scrabble champion took her own life last year after receiving abuse for being different, an inquest heard yesterday.

Meditation is as good as anti-depressants for tackling depression, a major study has suggested.

Since it was revealed that the co-pilot who purposefully crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, killing 150 people had been treated for psychiatric illness, a debate has ensued over whether privacy laws regarding medical records should be less strict.

A hormone known as the "love drug" because of its role in bonding between mother and child - as well as between lovers - has been shown to permanently alter the nerve pathways in the brain controlling certain social behaviour.

A former Iowa state politician faces up to 10 years in jail after having intercourse with his wife, who suffered from a severe case of Alzheimer's disease.

In a long-term study, toddlers who slept less than 10 hours a night or woke frequently tended to have more emotional and behavioural problems.

A cafe owner in the US who was 'heartbroken' to discover a homeless person was searching her rubbish for food has put up a sign inviting them to come inside for a free meal.

Tired of his love affair with wine and whisky, Hauraki Radio host Alex Behan, reveals the challenges of turning his back on alcohol.

How do you love a child who may never be able to say ‘I love you’ back?

Painting, drawing and sculpting in old age lowers the risk of developing the first signs of dementia by 73 per cent, an American study has shown.

"Even more epidemic than Alzheimer's itself is the fear of Alzheimer's." So in an attempt to offer some perspective, experts tell you what to look out for.

Two men who escaped from from a Hamilton mental health care facility have surrendered to authorities, police say.

The public are being warned to stay away from two men with a history of violence who have escaped from a Waikato mental health facility.

Lavish descriptions of food saved Laura Freeman from anorexia. But, even at Easter, she still denies herself one treat.

If you're miserable in the workplace, take solace in the fact that you've got a lot of company.

As we look things up on the Web, we become convinced that the information remains in our brains - and we behave as if it does - says a new study.

The "Zombie Ward" - is what the locked mental health facility where women prisoners were treated with the now-infamous "deep sleep therapy" was called, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

Why do we laugh? The obvious answer is that something is funny. But if we look closer at when and how laughter occurs in ordinary social situations, we see that it's not so simple.

Self-disgust is a relatively new area for psychological research and is being seen as increasingly relevant in helping us better understand a whole range of health behaviours.