psychiatric

Turku [Finland] According to a recent study in Finland, people often receive inaccurate information about depression. Researchers say that people find it more difficult to understand the reasons for their discomfort due to false information.Most mental health diagnoses are only descriptive...

New Delhi, According to a new research, chronic pain in older adults can be better addressed through Emotional Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET), an entirely new form of psychotherapy.EAET, whose initial clinical trials took place in the 2000s, targets past trauma and stress experienced...

The Mayo Clinic defines anorexia nervosa as an eating disorder where people suffer from abnormally low body weight and an intense fear of gaining weight.The study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders showed that the mortality rate is high in patients with anorexia nervosa...

LONDON: About 8 percent of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences derived from ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous retroviruses (or HERVs), are hundreds of thousands to millions of years old – some even predating the emergence of Homo sapiens.Our latest research...

The study, published in the journal Psychological Medicine, is the first to show an age-dependent association between self-reported cannabis use and later psychiatric disorder diagnosis.This suggests that the association between cannabis and mental disorders may be stronger than previous...