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 ...

Psychiatric disorders can share common genetic influences, which means parts of DNA can be at the root of more than one mental condition, new research has found. The study, led by researchers at Texas ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By analyzing genetic data from more than six million people, researchers uncovered ...

An international study—the largest of its kind—has uncovered similar structural changes in the brains of young people diagnosed with anxiety disorders, depression, ADHD and conduct disorder, offering ...

Nearly half of Americans are affected by cardiovascular disease, while about one in four lives with a mental health condition. A newly released report from Emory University points to a deeper ...

Mental health disorders like depression and anxiety are common conditions that affect millions of people in the United States. Importantly, not everyone has the same risk of developing such disorders.

Treating and screening for non-substance-related mental health disorders could help drive down overdoses, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. The study, published ...

Kelly Cockrell said when her son was killed in a car crash at the age of 24, “I just spiraled.” Cockrell, 49, said she ...

The number of sufferers is thought to be around 3.5 million - three times more than the 2017 estimate of 1.25 million, ...

Can an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot serve as a reliable tool for mental health clinicians? A new study in Nature’s Scientific Reports shows how an AI assistant based on OpenAI’s Large Language ...