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 ...

Mental disorder trajectories vary significantly by age and sex, with younger patients experiencing more diagnostic shifts and psychiatric contacts.

Researchers increasingly suggest that biological diversity within schizophrenia may limit efforts to identify a single ...

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 ...

Compare, for example, psychology to biology. While the advance of germ theory of disease has led to a dramatic increase in life expectancy, psychological theories have had virtually no effect on the ...

Mental disorders like depression and anxiety are characterized by a variety of different symptoms, and individuals receiving the same diagnosis may experience different combinations of those symptoms.

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An international panel of leading experts on women’s mental health is recommending that postpartum psychosis be recognized as a distinct category of mental illness and classified accordingly within ...