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.

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

Schizophrenia is a severe and often highly debilitating psychiatric disorder characterized by distorted emotions, thinking patterns and altered perceptions of reality, as well as mental impairments.

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 ...

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

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