Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with a mental disorder, nearly double the number recorded in 1990. According to a new study, this stark rise has placed mental disorders as the leading ...

A new study has found that people are more accepting of some causes of mental illness than others, with biological and hereditary factors carrying the highest stigma. Mental illnesses with their ...

Mental disorders are the second-biggest cause of long-term disability globally. Covid-19 caused a huge acute mortality and morbidity between 2020 and 2022. The mental disorder burden is continuous and ...

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 ...

This may be the month we put together enough evidence that childhood trauma may not be the "responsible" agent in causing serious mental disorders to at least make us reconsider our popular theories.

Where mood disorders can cause temporary or fluctuating changes in mood, personality disorders cause symptoms that remain consistent over time and across a range of situations. For example, bipolar ...