Neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders (NPD) including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and depression are detrimental to individuals, their families and society…
A genetic propensity to higher circulating levels of lipids containing arachidonic acid, an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid found in eggs,…
It is not uncommon for people to “hit the wall” at work and experience burnout for short or long periods…
Research published today in The American Journal of Psychiatry finds that during a period of increasing cannabis use in the…
Schizophrenia is a severe neuropsychiatric disease that remains poorly understood and treated. Schizophrenia onset is typically in adolescence or early…
In a paper published today in Molecular Psychiatry, a team of scientists from the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with…
Scientists have found that depression and anxiety sufferers who have had a traumatic childhood tend to grow up as angry…
For older adults with clinical depression that has not responded to standard treatments, adding the drug aripiprazole (brand name Abilify)…
Face blindness, a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognize people we’ve never met or make us fail…
There is new evidence that a 50-year-old blood pressure drug could find new purpose as a treatment to mitigate the…
An international team of researchers including Sofya Kulikova, Senior Research Fellow at the HSE University-Perm, found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor…
Since the 1960s, researchers have postulated that major depression stems from disruptions in the serotonin neurotransmitter system, but the evidence…
A new study published by researchers at the University of Bath demonstrates the positive impact learning to play a musical…
Researchers from Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University and clinicians from the AP-HP and at Paris Brain Institute identified one of the…
Anxiety, autism, schizophrenia and Tourette syndrome each have their own distinguishing characteristics, but one factor bridging these and most other…
An extensive meta-analysis suggests that vitamin D supplementation may alleviate depressive symptoms in adults with depression. Conducted by an international…
Asking people to stop using social media for just one week could lead to significant improvements in their wellbeing, depression…
Over time, using antidepressants is not associated with significantly better health-related quality of life, compared to people with depression who…
Among patients with chronic, non-communicable diseases, the risk of death is more than doubled if they also have a psychiatric…
A recent study links anxiety behavior in rats, as well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans, to…
War veterans have helped scientists of South Ural State University identify biological indicators which signal whether people have a post-traumatic stress disorder…
While suicide levels in the USA fell during the first year of the pandemic, Australian researchers warn the lower suicide…
Multiple measures of sleep patterns and sleep efficiency are associated with lifetime diagnoses of mental illness, according to a new…
Feeling anxious about health, family or money is normal for most people–especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. But for those with…
A study conducted by a group of Brazilian researchers contributes to a deeper understanding of the molecular basis for schizophrenia,…
RESEARCHERS at the University of Huddersfield have warned there is an urgent need for the country’s mental health interventions to…
We’ve all felt stressed at some point, whether in our personal or professional lives or in response to exceptional circumstances…
Even prior to the pandemic, burnout among health care professionals was a pervasive public health concern, with some studies reporting…
More than half the clinicians surveyed at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre reported burnout and high levels of distress according…
The impact of eating disorders in the United States was nearly $400 billion in 2018-19 when considering both economic costs…