A massive reference book of mental health conditions known as the “bible” of psychiatry is going to change. The fifth and ...

Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to ...

The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is known as the DSM-5. What will the next version be called?

While lead exposure in children has been associated with cognitive and behavioral problems, few studies have examined later psychiatric symptoms. A new analysis led by researchers at Brown ...

Whether psychiatric symptoms mediate or moderate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and biological age acceleration is unclear. According to a new longitudinal study, depression and ...

Depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were associated with increased risk for earlier onset of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) compared with not having the conditions, new research ...

Online symptom checkers and social media are leading many to self-diagnose mental health conditions, often bypassing ...

Encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain often caused by infections or autoimmune processes, 1 is a serious and sometimes life-altering condition. While the acute symptoms of encephalitis—including ...

Source: Getty Images Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy “has the potential to be a comprehensive mental health treatment for patients with cancer,” according to researchers. Cancer patients who ...

A network analysis reveals that individuals who co-use alcohol and cannabis face higher symptom severity across all mental health domains than those who use only alcohol.