Why brains lose their flexibility in psychiatric conditions
Individuals with psychiatric conditions show reduced flexibility in their brain network dynamics, according to a new Rutgers study. The human…
Individuals with psychiatric conditions show reduced flexibility in their brain network dynamics, according to a new Rutgers study. The human…
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be an extremely incapacitating neuropsychiatric condition. The symptoms of people who suffer from OCD can entail…
While they share similar depressive and cognitive symptoms, the biological underpinnings of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder are distinct….
A researcher from the University of Kansas has led a large-scale study of university undergraduates to better understand how psychological…
Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms…
A landmark study led by researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs has uncovered new genetic insights into schizophrenia by…
People who have received emergency or hospital care in Canada due to hallucinogen use have a six-fold increased risk of…
A more precise and personalized form of electric brain stimulation may be a more effective and faster treatment for people…
Psychiatrists and mental health professionals have always relied on medication and talk therapy to treat depression, but Dr. Nicholas Fabiano,…
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of premature deaths in patients with bipolar disorder worldwide. In a novel study in…
Eating disorders affect more than 5% of young people, and they have one of the highest mortality rates of any…
People with cancer, heart disease and other conditions have come to expect treatments that their medical teams “personalize” just for…
Nearly every person who dies by suicide visits a doctor’s office within a year of their death. A new body…
Adults with a history of depression gain long-term physical conditions around 30% faster than those without, according to research publishing…
Depression can affect anyone. It is common, and in many cases severe. These days, there are good treatments available, typically…
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived in nursing…
New research suggests that it could be possible to separate treatment from hallucinations when developing new drugs based on psychedelics….
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…