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

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By ...

A massive study with over 6 million participants reveals genetic clusters behind 14 psychiatric disorders, opening the door to better diagnoses and treatments.

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve ...

Key points Finding the explanation to psychological disorders may seem to be an insurmountable task. New case studies suggest that fear of loss of control may underlie many psychological disorders.

Substance use disorder is a treatable, chronic condition in which an individual has an addiction to using alcohol, tobacco, ...

“Mental disorders,” in stark contrast, are nominal or classificatory kinds: They are names or descriptions of clusters of ...

A new study of more than 700,000 people living in Finland found that mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, and eating disorders could potentially be transmitted socially within adolescent peer ...

Living with an autoimmune disease is linked to a near doubling in the risk of persistent mental health issues, such as depression, generalized anxiety, and bipolar disorder, with these risks higher in ...

An analysis of more than 700,000 students showed that those who had multiple classmates in ninth grade with a mental disorder diagnosis had an increased risk of being diagnosed with a mental disorder ...