By focusing too much on diagnosing mental disorders, we are teaching people to understand and label their distress in ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By ...

A legislative bill filed by an Oklahoma lawmaker sparked outrage and fear that services provided by the state's mental health department would be moved under the Department of Corrections, but the ...

Teens may be able to pass on mental disorders to each other, a new study has found. According to a new paper in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, ninth-grade students with school friends with a mental ...

An analysis of more than 700,000 students showed that those who had multiple classmates in ninth grade with a mental disorder diagnosis had an increased risk of being diagnosed with a mental disorder ...

Studies over the past two decades have shown a person with serious mental illness can be over 10 times more likely to experience use of force during police interactions. Crisis Intervention Response ...

An analysis of major depressive disorder, covering diagnostic criteria, prevalence statistics across demographics, and ...