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THE human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. It contains 100 billion nerve cells. Considering how complex that is, it goes wrong remarkably rarely.

Nurses will help police officers sent to deal with incidents involving mentally ill offenders, under plans revealed by the Home Secretary.

Theresa May announced the plans to the Police Federation on Wednesday.

It followed a report by Staffordshire's police commissioner which said officers spent up to 25% of their time dealing with mental health-related incidents.

Matthew Ellis said he wanted specialist mental health response...

There are months that we can go through depression, and, days in those months that can hit harder than others.  In my experiences of episodes of depression, I have been able to track my depression by following the seasons.  Winter always seemed to plunge me into a depressive state, and within that episode there are days that are worse than others. But, if you can try and track how seasons affect your mood, you might have a better chance of preparing for it, and treating it...

Retirement can cause a drastic decline in health, according to a study released today.

Research found that both mental and physical health can suffer, said the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Age Endeavour Fellowship, who claim the Government should help people work longer and raise the state pension ages.

"Depressed people are out of sync with the rest of the world because their body clocks are broken," reports the Mail Online website, while The Independent claims that depressed people live in a "different time zone".

The story comes from a study that looked at the activity of genes thought to be involved in regulating the body's internal clock – the innate sense that most people have of the changes over a 24-hour day to night cycle (circadian rhythms).

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For decades, the label “schizophrenia” has been the clinical term used to describe a particular classification of psychosis.