Psychological disorders, also called mental illnesses, can affect how you think, feel, and behave. Psychological disorders are also called mental illnesses or mental health conditions. They can affect ...

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

A massive reference book of mental health conditions known as the “bible” of psychiatry is going to change. The fifth and ...

What few people, regardless of their politics, ever think to ask is: What is a “mental disorder”? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), “the bible” of the American ...

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 ...

Advances in the understanding of the causes of mental illness have important implications for therapeutic uses of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies in the treatment of depressed mood, ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...

The Department of Medicine at University of Calgary led an analysis comparing several clinical mental disorders with risk of acute coronary syndrome, a term that includes heart attack and emergency ...

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 ...

Eating disorders represent a significant and growing concern within the field of mental health, as highlighted by the ...