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Newport Beach, CA - November 27: The Brain Treatment Center, in Newport Beach, CA, uses the Magventure TMS device, with the B65 coil, to administer magnetic resonance therapy, or MeRT, from the company Wave Neuro, photographed Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. The MeRT therapy is finding greater application in treating autism and patience come to the Brain Treatment Center to receive it. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Key takeaways from our investigation into the science behind an alternative autism therapy

Here are the key takeways from The Times’ yearlong investigation into the science behind magnetic resonance therapy, or MERT, as a therapy for autism.

Oct. 24, 2024
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir (photo credit Harper)

Two extraordinary memoirs chronicle the ways mental illness carves chasms in a life

Oct. 24, 2024
Nelly Shukuru, 51, hold the scarf she had planned on using to hang herself after spending three years displaced in the Lushagala camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available

Oct. 17, 2024
A woman wearing sunglasses that are reflecting an ocean scene while fall leaves fall around her

How do you welcome the fall season in sunny L.A.? I went on a personal quest to find out

Oct. 14, 2024
HOLLYWOOD, CA - SEPTEMBER 18, 2024: Mary Serritella, 71, performs in front of a live audience during the Comedy Pole Show at the Bourbon Room on September 18, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

This 71-year-old pole dancer defies expectations — and gravity — in age-obsessed L.A.

Oct. 14, 2024

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Oct. 9, 2024
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