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 ...

How a person will be diagnosed with a mental illness could look significantly different in the near future.

Last week, the APA responded to that criticism by publishing a series of articles in The American Journal of Psychiatr y, ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

When resistance is labeled "derangement," psychiatry repeats an old pattern: pathologizing dissent while ignoring the ...