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 ...

Nearly one in eight people in the world lives with a mental disorder, and one person dies by suicide every 43 seconds.

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 ...

Standardized diagnostic interviews show moderate-to-substantial test-retest reliability for adult psychiatric and substance use disorders.

Regarding the reporting of information pertaining to athletes’ mental health, the consensus statement distinguishes between two scenarios: non-clinical recorders who observe symptoms based on a ...

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 ...

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.

Mental disorders are the leading contributors to the globally nonfatal burden of disease. This study was aimed to estimate the burden of mental disorders in Asian countries. Based on GBD 2019, the ...

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 ...

Different neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ...