Many of my clients seek therapy due to chronic relationship problems—whether it be with their parents, co-workers, family members, and/or partners. “They're driving me crazy!” “Is it them or me?" “Am ...

Mood disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. These types of psychiatric disorders affect a person’s emotions and may cause severe lows, called depression, and highs, called mania ...

Hyperarousal plays an important role in mental disorders. It influences the severity of insomnia, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and ADHD. Yet it is striking that ...

For patients with disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, mutations in the same gene could require different treatments, according to new research from Yale School of Medicine (YSM). Many ...

Genetic risk in mental illness is not equal, with some disorders highly distinct and others sharing broad inherited vulnerability.

When a young woman earning her Ph.D. in biostatistics came to see psychiatrist Michael Gandal with symptoms of psychosis, she became the fifth person in her immediate family to be diagnosed with a ...

For centuries, mental illness and physical disease have been viewed as two distinct categories, each with its own field of study, its own doctors, and its own menu of treatments.