A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients.

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

A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published in ...

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

Depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder are each linked to an increased risk for acute coronary syndrome, a new meta-analysis shows.

These days, there’s a lot of talk and debate about whether mental disorders ought to be thought of as biological diseases versus “understandable” and even “normal” reactions to life events. One common ...

The Department of Medicine at University of Calgary led an analysis comparing several clinical mental disorders with risk of acute coronary syndrome, a term that includes heart attack and emergency ...

Social networks exploit young people's vulnerability and actually help boost certain disorders that they are prone to ...

The FDA issued a warning about the use of compounded ketamine products, including oral formulations, for treating psychiatric disorders, due to a recent increased interest. The warning emphasized that ...

A psychotrauma specialist explains why trauma affects more people than expected after disasters and why delayed care remains ...