Psychiatric diagnosis still relies on symptom checklists that were never designed to reflect biology. A peer-reviewed invited review published in Brain Medicine now synthesizes recent advances across ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...

Mental health issues are more common than we realize, with half the world likely to face a mental health challenge at some point in their lives, suggest experts. Mental disorders have many causes, and ...

People with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder die on average 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population. The main causes of this are cardiovascular and ...

It's free, easy to use, doesn't have a stigma around it, and makes you feel better. Researchers and experts warn that's the ...

Clare Dupree, 48, from Cardiff, died on 28 December 2022, at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, two days after a vaping device ...

Some mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), have become more accepted in society. People can now talk about them at work, at home ...

A comprehensive invited review published today in Brain Medicine confronts one of the most persistent paradoxes in modern medicine: psychiatry remains the only major clinical discipline that diagnoses ...

Even as Singapore moves to strengthen workplace protections against mental health discrimination, deciding whether to ...

We should scrap the psychiatric diagnosis system and try to help patients the best we can without labelling and drugging them.