Helping patients navigate disability outside the clinic is critical to rehabilitation for physical conditions. People with psychiatric conditions can benefit from the same philosophy.
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A recent study found that people diagnosed with a psychiatric condition were more likely to be married to someone with a similar diagnosis.
‘Hervs’ date back hundreds of thousands of years – and play an important role in regulating genes.
When someone has mental illness, their families can experience distress, stress, fear, powerlessness, and still love.
Postpartum depression can strike days, weeks or months after delivery, and the much rarer cases of psychosis can be difficult to detect.
An overreliance on medication as the first-line treatment for depression can lead some people to be labeled with treatment-resistant depression when there are other viable alternatives for relief.
Patients who undergo transcranial magnetic stimulation say it’s painless, with few to no side effects. The treatment isn’t yet widely accessible, but for those who use it, the effects can be profound.
Existing genetic data and sequencing tools are overwhelmingly based on people of European ancestry, which excludes much of the rich genetic variation of the world.
People who get COVID continue to face increased risks of developing some neurological and psychiatric conditions, like psychosis and dementia, for up to two years afterwards.
The loss of income, economic and food insecurity, fear of infection, and death of family members resulted in feelings of frustration, anxiety and depression.
Pinpointing the molecular targets behind the subjective effects of psychedelic drugs could help clinicians and researchers better treat psychiatric conditions.
The pandemic has put a spotlight on a once little-discussed disorder – hoarding. But hoarding disorder is not what you might think.
The virus seems to have a range of effects on the brain, even in patients with only mild lung illness.
Patients taking antipsychotics aren’t being made aware of the risks or side-effects.
Mental health is impacted by both genetic and environmental factors. But new research reveals that many mental health disorders may flow from early disturbances in fetal development.
When mass shootings occur, some people insist the focus should be on mental illness, not gun control. A psychiatrist explains how that view misses the mark.
Researchers are getting closer to understanding how some people are more susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder.
Harnessing the medicinal benefit of the body’s own cannabis-like substances may provide an alternative to medicinal marijuana.
It is probably not a surprise that a terror attack can have a major impact on people’s mental health. But what sort of effects are common, and how long do they last?
Researchers want your canine’s DNA to help unravel the connections between genes and behavior – for dogs and human beings.
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, UMass Chan Medical School
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Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor; NHMRC Clinical Research Fellow; NICM Health Research Institute Deputy Director, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge
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Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Duke University
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Associate Professor, Xidian University
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Director, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, University at Buffalo