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Most European nations have seen suicide rates fall by 20 percent or more. Research is limited, but some studies blame US inequality.
The Supreme Court's Janus ruling extends strong protection to the First Amendment 'right of silence' and continues their trend of expanding First Amendment rights, often at the behest of conservatives.
The Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring faith-based crisis pregnancy centers to post signs with information about family planning services.
People's most private information isn't on paper locked in desks anymore – it's online, stored on corporate servers. The Supreme Court now says some privacy protections cover that data.
Children with cancer often experience terrible pain. Adults who treat them are determined to lessen their suffering. Can the lessons from helping kids with cancer pain inform treatment for adults in pain?
Just as with so many other criminal justice policies, pretrial detention disproportionately affects African-American men and women, destabilizing black families in the process.
Privacy rules enacted in Europe are affecting companies – and their customers and users – all around the world.
Kids often experience anxiety when separated from parents for short periods. Longer separations, happening with some immigrant children, is a different matter, a leading child psychiatrist explains.
In the seven years since civil war erupted in Syria, refugees have fled the violence and destruction. But starting over in a new country after such experiences is much harder than it may seem.
Nestle pays the state a pittance in exchange for its water at a time when public awareness of water issues is rising.
Most people know that the First Amendment protects free speech. But two upcoming Supreme Court cases reveal how it also gives people in the US the right not to speak.
Bipolar disorder is an often misunderstood psychiatric illness. An expert defines it and explains how it is diagnosed and treated.
Whenever we apply that political or moral comparison, we set the bar for inhumanity as high as possible. Should the abyss of World War II really be the main measure for all things political?
When mass shootings occur, some people insist the focus should be on mental illness, not gun control. A psychiatrist explains how that view misses the mark.
A legal scholar looks at the new and narrowed definition of bribery by the US Supreme Court. In the future, will politicians doing favors for donors and friends ever be prosecuted for corruption?
On the heels of a new report that shows depression and anxiety are the top reasons college students seek counseling, a psychiatry professor lists a variety of factors behind the trend.
Science has come a long way in the 100 years since the worst flu pandemic in history. But that doesn't mean that the country is ready for another health disaster.
Research on the relationship between mascots and fandom shows just how tricky it is to truly eradicate a mascot from a region's collective identity.
Today's women's movement can succeed if organizers learn from the past.
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Wayne State University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of U.S. Political and Women's/Gender History, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University
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Director of the Transnational Environmental Law Clinic; Assistant Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professor of Psychology, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Distinguished Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University
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Senior Lecturer of History, Wayne State University
