SYNLAB and ALCEDIAG recently launched the first blood test to assist in mental health diagnosis in France. The test is aimed at differentiating bipolar disorders from depression. The news may be ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Thursday is National Depression Screening Day and there's new research on the importance of diagnosing the mental health condition that can be life-saving. This research is ...

This study contrasts the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) between 291 psychiatrists and 40 ...

This post was co-authored with Max Fink, M.D. There has been a lot of talk in the media about psychiatric diagnosis and what it's for. In The New York Times, psychiatrist Ronald Pies says that the ...

Medibio Ltd., an Australian medtech company which is expanding its presence in Minnesota, is quickly following through on a clinical trial agreement with the Mayo Clinic to use its digital mental ...

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses. As many as 280 million people worldwide are affected by this disease, which is why researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have ...

A large new study finds the likelihood of having dementia persists whether depression is identified in early, middle, or late life. Adults diagnosed with depression at any age are more than twice as ...

Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern believe it may be possible to diagnose depression using a blood test. According to Eva Redei, a professor of psychiatry at the university ...

New mothers often experience postpartum depression differently, and the condition can be challenging to diagnose, according to medical experts. Brooke Wiesner, a mother of three, shared her struggle ...

Increased rates of incident depression appear in some patients with Parkinson disease and Lewy body dementia, 7 to 8 years ...

There has been a lasting and disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis rates for conditions including ...

When Katherine Wisner began studying postpartum mental health in the 1980s, the field barely existed. Relatively little research was focused on psychiatric illness related to pregnancy, and postpartum ...