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Study says one in 13 Americans suffers from moderate or severe depression, with women disproportionately affected.

Persistent anxiety is one of the most common and distressing symptoms compromising mental health.

Panic disorder is a severe form of anxiety in which the affected individual feels an abrupt onset of fear, often accompanied by profound physical symptoms of discomfort.

“I can’t get the memories out of my mind!… I am right back in Vietnam, in the middle of the monsoon season at my guard post. My hands are freezing, yet sweat pours from my entire body…

Give therapists and psychiatrists information about the biology of a mental disorder, and they have less — not more — empathy for the patient, a new Yale study shows.The findings released Dec.

Stroke researchers have found that the presence of frontal lesions predicts better functional improvement in individuals with spatial neglect who received prism adaptation therapy.

Traumatic brain injury can disrupt the function of the brain’s waste removal system, research confirms. When this occurs, toxic proteins may accumulate in the brain, setting the stage for the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and …

A rogue protein has been identified in multiple sclerosis, which attacks the body’s central nervous system. Reporting for the first time, researchers believe this finding could pave the way for better understanding of multiple sclerosis and new treatme…

Researchers have created brain-reading techniques to use neural representations of social thoughts to predict autism diagnoses with 97 percent accuracy. This establishes the first biologically based diagnostic tool that measures a person’s thoughts to …

Vitamin D deficiency is not just harmful to physical health — it also might impact mental health, according to a team of researchers that has found a link between seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, and a lack of sunlight.