Key points Finding the explanation to psychological disorders may seem to be an insurmountable task. Using case studies, new research on mental health and psychological disorders suggests that fear of ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

The FAMILY consortium, an EU-funded study, aims to understand the intergenerational transmission of mental illness risk ...

Mental disorders may be socially transmitted among adolescents in a peer group, a Finnish nationwide cohort study suggested. An analysis of more than 700,000 students showed that those who had ...

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Living with an autoimmune disease is linked to a near doubling in the risk of persistent mental health issues, such as depression, generalized anxiety, and bipolar disorder, with these risks higher in ...

Teens may be able to pass on mental disorders to each other, a new study has found. According to a new paper in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, ninth-grade students with school friends with a mental ...

What are the things you can and cannot control? And how much do these matter to your overall sense of well-being? A new theory of psychological disorders proposes that it is not just what you can ...