Breaking Stigmas and Embracing Mental Health Awareness

Let’s talk about the state of our mental health. Nationally, children and teenagers are more anxious than they’ve been. So much so that the American Academy of…

UF Health researchers develop CMS quality measure to evaluate inpatient psychiatric hospitals

January 14, 2020

University of Florida Health researchers, in collaboration with the Health Services Advisory Group, have completed a new quality measure for the Centers for…

UF researchers identify drug therapy that could decrease the rewarding effect of methamphetamine

December 20, 2017

University of Florida neuroscientists have identified a novel way to preventively decrease the reward effects of methamphetamine on the brain using…

Take the Pledge: Learn About Mental Illness

This year, Oct. 1–7 is Mental Illness Awareness Week, a time to shine a light on mental illness and replace stigma with hope. Each year we fight stigma,…

5 Must-Read Mental Health Awareness Books

1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiences mental illness in a given year. These adults are friends, mothers and fathers and spouses. They work beside you and bag…

“Bath salt” drug spurs psychosis-like condition in the brain, UF Health study finds

June 8, 2016

The use of psychoactive “bath salts” — illegal synthetic drugs not related to the colored crystalline compounds for softening bathwater — can induce a…