Psychiatric disorders represent twenty-first-century medicine's greatest global challenge. They are the major cause worldwide of the nonfatal burden of disease 1. They account for around 30% of all ...

Adolescents who use cannabis could face a significantly higher risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders by young ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By analyzing genetic data from more than six million people, researchers uncovered ...

The current, criteria-based approach towards diagnosing psychiatric disorders evolved from research in the 1960s and early 1970s by faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in ...

Autism, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia all share several genetic risk factors, according to a major study. Versions of four ...

Researchers with Texas A&M’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences are working to create a genetic map that could explain the origins and causes ...

Adolescents who use cannabis could face a significantly higher risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders by young ...

A group of international doctors has uncovered the genes that contribute to the development of ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia. A group of ...

Teenage cannabis users double their risk of psychotic and bipolar disorders, according to the latest research.

Credit: Getty Images Some rare psychological disorders may occur so infrequently that most mental health professionals might never encounter them. Approximately 1 of every 5 adults in the United ...