Postpartum psychosis is a rare, clinically dramatic disorder typically beginning within a few weeks of delivery. Recent ...

When an addiction and a mental health disorder coexist—a condition known as dual disorder—scientific evidence indicates that integrated psychological treatment improves clinical outcomes and reduces ...

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 ...

Mental disorders like depression and anxiety are characterized by a variety of different symptoms, and individuals receiving the same diagnosis may experience different combinations of those symptoms.

A Lancet study has published updated figures on the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, having systematically analyzed data from 1990 through to 2023. The study looked at 375 diseases ...

Overlapping conditions can cause hypervigilance, intrusive thoughts, anger and detachment—sometimes long after childbirth.

People with a severe mental illness die more than 10 years earlier than the general population, research led by The ...

The “bible” of clinical psychiatry – the DSM, short for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – is one of the most popular psychiatry reference books around the world. Clinicians ...

A teenager with an unusual mental illness experienced a rare-but-dangerous result of her symptoms.

A lawsuit alleges that people with serious mental illness who have been found incompetent to proceed in their criminal cases ...