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.

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

FRIDAY, Dec. 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Psychiatric conditions as varied as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder might be driven by very similar genetic underpinnings, a new study says. Mental health ...

Bolton is a senior scientist in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Years ago, I was the only physician serving a small country town and its ...

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

The question of what constitutes a mental disorder is a hot issue right now because the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is in the process of making a major revision, from IV-R to ...

According to the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SEPSM), mental health has become an urgent public health challenge driven by the rising demand for care and shortage of clinicians.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The findings could also spare patients the burden of carrying multiple different diagnoses that require an assortment of different ...