For decades, diagnosing a mental illness has depended largely on symptoms and clinical observation rather than lab tests. Yet ...

By focusing too much on diagnosing mental disorders, we are teaching people to understand and label their distress in ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

AI chatbot achieves high accuracy in performing clinical patient diagnostic interviews for common mental health disorders.

The pandemic has revealed some truths: A lack of mental health providers to sufficiently meet the needs of those in crisis (including providers of color); and the stress that COVID-19 has introduced ...

People don't get to choose the illnesses that render them too disabled to work, but insurance companies have the power to approve or deny claims based on where in the body their condition exists. It's ...

Researchers at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa found that high risk of obstructive sleep apnea ...

Your program director. The new policy advisor who starts work in your department next week. Maybe even you. More than 51 million adults in the United States have a mental illness. Chances are, you ...