WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 4, 2025 — The latest issues of three American Psychiatric Association journals (The American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, and Focus) are now available online. The ...

This is the second volume of our previous collection, linked here. Mental health disorders and physical diseases often co-occur, and growing evidence ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...

Some children have a higher genetic risk of being subjected to child abuse. If they are also girls and/or grow up with parents who have mental health issues, the risk increases further. So explains ...

Myriad Genetics, Inc. announced that a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology found that the GeneSight® Psychotropic Test significantly reduced psychiatric hospitalizations in ...

Scientists have known for a long time that psychiatric disorders overlap with each other. During their lifetime, many individuals are diagnosed with multiple conditions, and symptoms that are common ...

Source: JESHOOTS/ Pexels When it comes to mental health, we’ve all heard the phrase: “It runs in the family.” And it’s true—psychiatric conditions like autism and schizophrenia have a clear genetic ...

Psychiatric disorders share genetic variants that cluster into five main factors. Understanding shared biology could improve ...