Coordinating Care: Make Sure Your Docs Know About Each Other When medical care is coordinated or "integrated" by a single clinical manager, the quality of care and the patient's quality of life are improved more than if each health professional acted on his or her own.

For Healthy Brains, Get the Lead Out! In addition to causing many other toxic effects throughout the body, lead exposure, in the nervous systems of children, can permanently impair mental development.

Anger and Depression: Can Omega-3 Fatty Acids Help? Controlled clinical studies of Omega-3 have shown some improvement in symptoms related to depression, anxiety, and attention.

Eat Fish For a Healthy Brain While fatty acids play an important role early on in the developing brain, they may also be important for brain and mental health throughout our lives.

When Eating Right Goes Wrong Making an effort to eat healthier and then losing some weight can be very satisfying, and the lost weight becomes a good motivation to continue eating right. Some people with eating disorders, however, continue to lose weight past the point where it is healthy. For patients with anorexia nervosa, extreme weight loss can cause severe medical problems and sometimes can be fatal.

Awake or Asleep: Defining Sleep Problems Insomnia becomes a problem when people are unable to sleep when they expect to sleep and when they suffer undesirable consequences because of their inadequate sleep time.

Does Talking to Yourself Mean You're Crazy? A reader recently asked whether it was abnormal for people to talk to themselves. I don't believe there's anything unusual in someone speaking out loud to no one in particular, or when no one else is around. For some people, it's simply a habit; they may be using it to keep themselves organized, stay focused, and remind themselves what to do next.

Could a Breast Cancer Treatment Help Bipolar Disorder? Surprisingly, recent studies have suggested that a breast cancer therapy might also help with bipolar disorder.

Poetry: Good for Your State of Mind No matter what you happen to be feeling, you can try expressing a moment's moods and sensations creatively, using combinations of words. Just start writing — don't think too hard.

Strokes Create Serious Depression Risk The depression that may follow a stroke is often more severe than would be expected, even after suffering a physical disability.