After significant debate, the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5) was published in 2013. Even before it was published it was met with ...

Psychiatric disorders often overlap and can make diagnosis difficult. Depression and anxiety, for example, can coexist and share symptoms. Schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa. Autism and attention ...

Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published this year pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes and ...

Dr. Oldham's contributions have fundamentally reshaped personality disorder classification, moving the field from rigid diagnostic categories toward a more nuanced dimensional system. As former ...

Psychotic disorders encompass a spectrum of conditions marked by disturbances in perception, thought and behaviour that impair reality testing. Historical frameworks began with Kraepelin’s distinction ...

Some psychiatric disorders have many overlapping symptoms, which can make it very challenging to diagnose a specific disease. These disorders can be influenced by genetic factors, which may involve a ...

In a recent cohort study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, researchers from Sweden and Finland conducted a population-based study to investigate the potential association between ...

Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A new study has now honed in on some of those shared genetic variants to understand their ...

Researchers recently discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published this year pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes and shows ...