Landmark surveys across 30+ countries exposed massive treatment gaps, reshaping global mental health policy Our ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

We know that the genes we're born with contribute to the risk of psychiatric disorders during our lifetimes, and a new study shows there is significantly more biological overlap across these ...

Genetic research is rapidly overturning the idea that each psychiatric diagnosis is a separate island. Large DNA studies now suggest that many mental health conditions are different expressions of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The findings could also spare patients the burden of carrying multiple different diagnoses that require an assortment of different ...

A page may soon turn on how mental health professionals diagnose certain disorders.

For more than 70 years, physicians seeking to diagnose mental-health conditions have turned to the ‘bible for psychiatry’ — ...

Although the number of people who smoke cigarettes has dropped significantly since the mid-1960s, about 16% of the U.S. adult population still smoke. A much greater percentage of those with certain ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

NEW YORK CITY — Psychiatric comorbidities are highly prevalent in patients with eating disorders (EDs), a large study showed. In a propensity-matched cohort of young adults with and without EDs, a ...

Clients may present with anxiety or trauma while eating disorder symptoms remain hidden.

Mental health disorders are on the rise in the military, now accounting for more hospitalizations than any other ailment, according to a new Defense Department health report. Diagnoses of mental ...