Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katie Melua recently opened up about suffering an acute psychotic breakdown in her 20s. (Getty Images) Being there for a loved one ...

Psychosis is often short-term, whereas schizophrenia is a lifelong condition. Learn more about this and other differences between the two.

The findings of a new brain study could change the way doctors treat mood disorders involving psychosis in patients. The brain imaging study found that changes in brain dopamine are linked to symptoms ...

It was an April spring morning in Birmingham, England, and I had been experiencing severe symptoms of psychosis for two weeks. My only contact had been a kind flatmate making me dinner and leaving it ...

Psychotic disorders affect around one in 100 people globally and are among the most severe mental health problems. Early intervention is crucial to reduce the impact of psychosis, but diagnosis and ...

Have you been seeing synchronicity numbers or experiencing various synchronicities? It can feel like you’re losing your mind and, perhaps, even developing some kind of psychosis. Rest assured, ...

We know there's a link between cannabis use and psychosis, though the odds vary widely from study to study. But it's still unclear exactly how the drug triggers psychosis, which can progress to ...

Content warning: Discussions of suicide and self-harm. Amidst the conversation, a new term has been coined: "AI psychosis." While not a formal clinical diagnosis, experts are using the term to denote ...

New research has suggested that the delusions and hallucinations that psychosis patients experience results from the malfunction of two important systems in the brain; one system acts as a filter that ...

As discussed in other posts on this page, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia share a diagnostic history. ASD was originally thought of as a symptom of schizophrenia, prior to becoming ...