Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to ...

Credit: Getty Images. Health care workers biases, unconscious or conscious, can influence clinical judgement and affect the decision-making process—particularly in emergency departments. Although ...

The American Psychiatric Association has announced big upcoming changes to psychiatry’s big book of mental disorders, the DSM ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a blueprint that the U.S. can use to expand evidence-based interventions to prevent mental, ...

Mixed anxiety-depressive disorders (MADD) and suicidal thoughts, online bullying, poorer self-esteem, alcohol, cannabis and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I am continuing my ongoing series about the ...

Mental health, mental illness, and mental performance are distinct concepts that impact the way we think, feel, and behave. They may be correlated to each other, but not always. Understanding and ...

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The meta-analysis examined data from 83 studies over the course of 40 years. The risks of using medicinal cannabinoids like CBD and marijuana to treat mental health problems may outweigh any benefits, ...