New research bolsters the idea that the risk for psychiatric and developmental disorders isn’t specific to particular conditions — and that could mean new opportunities to treat mental illnesses that ...

Psychosis is an experience marked by changes in how information is integrated. While the hallmarks of psychosis include qualities like hallucinations and unusual beliefs, the pathways to psychosis may ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a low-cost, portable biosensor that can quickly identify a protein whose altered levels are associated with psychiatric disorders, such as depression, ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory rather than the cells and circuits that go wrong. Now a new wave of brain ...

Schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder are two conditions that have many differences between them. A class of medicines called antipsychotics can be used to treat both conditions but may cause unwanted ...

A machine learning model showed better accuracy for predicting schizophrenia than bipolar disorder. The study used EHR data to predict mental health transitions within 5 years. Clinical notes were ...