In patients with chronic, disabling physical symptoms, an unrecognized associated mental illness often co-exists. These patients typically do not offer their clinicians the expected psychological ...

The neighborhoods in which children grow up have consequences for their short- and long-term well-being. Although most neighborhood research measures disadvantage at the census tract level, more ...

Psychomotor retardation, sometimes called psychomotor impairment, is the slowing down or hampering of your mental or physical activities. This usually takes the form of slower thinking or body ...

With a simple standard MRI scan of the brain, it may soon be possible to predict which people with mental illnesses will gain ...

Mind and body form a two-way street. By Jane E. Brody It’s no surprise that when a person gets a diagnosis of heart disease, cancer or some other life-limiting or life-threatening physical ailment, ...

‌Malingering is pretending to have an illness in order to get a benefit. The feigned illness can be mental or physical. Malingering is also when someone exaggerates symptoms of an illness for the same ...

The main symptom of generalized anxiety disorder is excessive worry for at least 6 months. It's often caused by genetic, ...

Bulimia nervosa is a life-threatening eating disorder and binging followed by purging constitute two of its main features.