A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric ...

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve symptoms when standard treatments don’t work.

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 ...

"That's not a proper understanding of things, and so we're trying to figure out what's causing these psychiatric diseases, not just how to treat them." Fortunately, investigating glial cells may help ...

Leaders of the D.S.M., the world’s most influential psychiatric manual, have been split for more than five years over whether ...

Scientists who study mental disorders have long faced an inherent obstacle. When they examine a deceased person’s brain, they can’t tell how the brain cells functioned and interacted. And they can’t ...

Johns Hopkins researchers say they’re getting closer to developing a blood test that would identify changes in the brain associated with psychiatric and neurological disorders — an advancement that ...

Cecilia Flores (left) is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University (Montreal, Canada), where she runs a lab focused on the adolescent brain and the mechanisms underlying its ...