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This column is a plea to all current and future college students and their families to deal openly and constructively with emotional, social and academic turmoil that can sometimes have heartbreaking — and usually preventable — consequences.

Mental-health problems among college students have been climbing since the 1990s, according to the American Psychological Association. And with services increasingly stretched at campus health centers, students have been taking action themselves through peer-run mental-health clubs and organizations. The approach appears to be paying off, a new study finds.

Twenty-two psychiatrists and psychologists, including some of the field's most prominent thinkers, are calling on the American Psychiatric Association on Thursday to substantially revise its controversial Goldwater rule, which bars APA members from offering their views of a public figure's apparent psychological traits or mental status.

In May, when the National Basketball Players Association announced Dr. William D. Parham as its first-ever director of mental health and wellness, it came as a surprise to some and an inevitability to others.

The NBA is by many accounts the most progressive professional sports league. It makes sense that its players would be the first in professional sports to create such a position, specifically focused on athlete wellness and mental health.

Physical fitness in middle age is tied to a lower risk of later-life depression and death from cardiovascular disease, a new study reports.

Both depression and cardiovascular disease are common in older people, and rates of depression are high in the presence of cardiovascular illness, especially stroke. Moreover, depression is a risk factor for adverse outcomes in cardiovascular disease patients.

This week, our nation's psyche was rocked yet again with news — and video — of how Antwon Rose, a 17-year-old black American teenager, was fatally shot in the back by police while fleeing a traffic stop.

Having a stress-related psychiatric condition may increase the risk for autoimmune disease, a new study concludes.

Stress is known to cause physiological changes, including changes in immune function, but evidence that links it to specific diseases is limited.

Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain's deaths came just days before the CDC released startling statistics about the rate of suicide in the country. Experts are left trying to figure out what has gone wrong.