After significant debate, the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5) was published in 2013. Even before it was published it was met with ...
Our understanding of mental illness is undergoing a major evolution, driven by recent advances in genetics. Rather than ...
Researchers from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) report that most genetic influences on mental illness are shared across diagnostic categories, revealing a more interconnected biological ...
Neuroimaging technology has been shown to hold great promise in helping clinicians link specific symptoms of mental health disorders to abnormal patterns of brain activity. But a new study shows there ...
An analysis of DNA from millions of individuals has identified shared genetic pathways across psychiatric disorders, findings ...
Sens. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) have sponsored "mental health parity" legislation requiring employers to offer the same coverage for mental illness that they do for physical ...
An international panel of leading experts on women’s mental health is recommending that postpartum psychosis be recognized as a distinct category of mental illness and classified accordingly within ...