The "bible" of clinical psychiatry—the DSM, short for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—is one of the ...

Severe mental illness is linked to a higher risk for premature death from physical illnesses like cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

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 ...

A groundbreaking study by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium has revealed significant genetic overlap among 14 psychiatric ...

A team involving researchers from Wroclaw Medical University analyzed studies of people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders ...

Genetic research is rapidly overturning the idea that each psychiatric diagnosis is a separate island. Large DNA studies now suggest that many mental health conditions are different expressions of a ...

Newly diagnosed mental disorders are associated with increased mortality and adverse clinical outcomes in patients with permanent pacemakers.

Early-life immune activation from bacterial or viral infections may increase the risk for psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence.

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

Dementia increases sharply with the number of comorbid psychiatric disorders, with mood and anxiety disorders posing the greatest risk, new research showed. Compared to individuals with a single ...

Although the number of people who smoke cigarettes has dropped significantly since the mid-1960s, about 16% of the U.S. adult population still smoke. A much greater percentage of those with certain ...

Clinicians use it to diagnose patients and scientists use it to guide research. Despite its wide impact, the DSM has never integrated biology in its diagnoses of mental illness. This omission was ...