New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve ...

In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry, Dr. Maria Margarita Behrens recounts an extraordinary scientific journey that wound through four countries and multiple ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

Our understanding of mental illness is undergoing a major evolution, driven by recent advances in genetics. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms observed in consultation, research is ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By ...

For decades, diagnosing a mental illness has depended largely on symptoms and clinical observation rather than lab tests. Yet ...

“Mental disorders,” in stark contrast, are nominal or classificatory kinds: They are names or descriptions of clusters of ...

Severe COVID-19, but not mild, is associated with a significantly higher risk for psychiatric and neurologic disorders a year after infection, a new study shows. Compared with individuals who never ...

Individuals older than 50 years with bipolar or major depressive disorder were more likely to have retinal disease, and those with a diagnosis of retinal disease and a psychiatric illness were at ...

By focusing too much on diagnosing mental disorders, we are teaching people to understand and label their distress in ...