A common mental health issue could take years off your life, new research has revealed. People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were found to live shorter lives than those who were ...

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 ...

Autism spectrum disorder (10.9% vs 1.0%; OR, 10.67; 95% CI, 6.35-17.91; P .001) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (13% vs 3.4%; OR, 3.9; 95% CI, 3.80-4.08; P .001) are more prevalent among ...

Having more than one mental health condition may substantially increase dementia risk, according to a new study. Tatiana Maksimova/Getty Images Now, a new study recently published in the journal BMJ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. white pills in palm of a hand New research shows that people who take certain psychiatric medications may be more likely to ...

Psychiatric manual categories still help with communication and treatment planning, but are imperfect proxies for personalized medicine or treatment predictions. The study confirmed what some ...

Bolton is a senior scientist in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Years ago, I was the only physician serving a small country town and its ...

There is a complex interrelationship between mental disorders and physical diseases such that, in some cases, mental disorders predict the later onset of physical disease and vice versa, new research ...

Why are eating disorders often misunderstood? Many struggle, few are diagnosed: The reality of eating disorders ...

A large South Korean study published by The BMJ finds no increased risk of psychiatric or neurodevelopmental disorders, such ...