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A pair of studies suggest that a customized approach to brain stimulation carries advantages in treating mental health conditions. Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images hide caption
Eight-year-old twins Kenley (left) and Anakin Gupta have struggled with loneliness during the pandemic, but the isolation has been much more acute for Kenley. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption
"You do what you have to do to survive," says Diane Evans, who is fighting pandemic loneliness with technology. Evans lives in San Francisco and has Zoom calls regularly with her daughter in Chicago. Lesley McClurg/KQED hide caption
COMIC: A Kids' Guide To Coping With The Pandemic (And A Printable Zine)
Researchers have found that people recovering from COVID-19 are more likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder such as anxiety, depression or insomnia within three months of their illness from the virus. Basak Gurbuz Derma/Getty Images hide caption
The hallucinogenic chemical psilocybin produced in some mushrooms helped people with major depression in a study that also included supportive psychotherapy. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
A health care worker prepares to screen people for the coronavirus at a testing site in Landover, Md., in March. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Health Care Workers Ask Therapist: 'Why Aren't More People Taking This Seriously?'
Mental health advocates say 988, a simple three-digit number, will be easier for people to remember in the midst of a mental health emergency. T2 Images/Getty Images/Cultura RF hide caption
Police are "responding to nonviolent, noncriminal calls for service for people whose needs are largely social, behavioral or mental. And that's just not right," says San Francisco Fire Capt. Simon Pang, who's helping to spearhead efforts to create new mobile crisis teams for the city. Eric Westervelt /NPR hide caption
In her new book, Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual, Terri Cheney, who lives with bipolar disorder, shares advice for dealing with anxiety and depression and helping loved ones through a crisis. Neha Gupta/Getty Images hide caption
Scientists used light to control the firing of specific cells to artificially create a rhythm in the brain that acted like the drug ketamine enjoynz/Getty Images hide caption
Scientists Say A Mind-Bending Rhythm In The Brain Can Act Like Ketamine
Elders stand on the front line in a march for Daniel Prude on Sunday in Rochester, N.Y. Prude died in March a week after police pinned him to the ground. It was the fifth consecutive night of protesting since the release of police body-camera footage of Prude's arrest. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Dinora Chinchilla is finally taking a month off after working seven consecutive months. Courtesy of Nicole Cataldi hide caption
As Pandemic Persists, Health Care Heroes Beginning To Crack Under The Strain
'I Just Start Cutting.' Self-Harm Incidents Surge In Arizona Prisons
View of Seltun geothermal field in Krysuvik on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland on July 5, 2014. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Recent protests in Philadelphia and across the country have drawn young people. But for most of the pandemic, youth have been quarantined and away from their social circles, which could make depression and other mental illness worse. Cory Clark/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Kai Koerber, a rising sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, is a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Since then, he says, he's made promoting a mental health curriculum in high schools and colleges a personal priority. Brittany Hosea-Small hide caption
The United Nations warned that the global pandemic presents particular dangers for people who struggle with mental health. Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A spike in texts and calls to crisis hotlines reflects Americans' growing anxiety about the coronavirus and its impact on their lives. Richard Bailey/Getty Images hide caption
Flood Of Calls And Texts To Crisis Hotlines Reflects Americans' Rising Anxiety
A fatigued health care worker takes a moment outside the Brooklyn Hospital Center in April. Many hospital workers these days have to cope with horrific tragedies playing out multiple times on a single, 12-hour shift. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Trauma On The Pandemic's Front Line Leaves Health Workers Reeling
With Senior Year In Disarray, Teens And Young Adults Feel Lost. Here's How To Help
A man walks along the Yangtze River in Wuhan, the city in China where the novel coronavirus was first identified. Stringer for NPR hide caption
New inmates with a mental illness arrive daily in the Los Angeles County jail system. It now holds more than 5,000 inmates with a mental illness who've had run-ins with the law. Zoë van Dijk for NPR hide caption
Making art is fun. But there's a lot more to it. It might serve an evolutionary purpose — and emerging research shows that it can help us feel happy and relaxed. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption