Two death row inmates, both of whom were Black, were executed last Thursday. One suffered from mental illness and the other from an intellectual disability. An expert told Insider that the death ...

For the first time, researchers have systematically analysed social and clinical factors associated with psychiatric hospital admission of children and adolescents, finding nearly one-quarter (23.6%) ...

Despite 12 years of supervision by a federal court, Georgia’s system for caring for people with mental illness and intellectual disabilities remains a dangerous place, according to a new report. State ...

Intellectual disability causes significant limitations to a person’s intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. Intellectual disability is also sometimes known as cognitive disability. An ...

Shawn Stines has asked a judge to consider whether he was mentally ill or serious mentally disabled in the hopes he will ...

—A retrospective study found an increased risk of schizophrenia in patients with ADHD and at least one other psychiatric comorbidity, with a greater risk in those with multiple comorbidities. These ...