For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a severe and persistent mental disorder that causes significant morbidity and mortality. Roughly 10 percent of people with BPD will die by suicide ...

It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows My psychological research rarely makes good comedy material, ...

As marijuana use among teens has grown in the past decade, researchers have been trying to better understand the health risks of the drug. Now, a new longitudinal study finds that cannabis use among ...

Neurological autoimmune diseases happen when the immune system attacks the central nervous system (CNS) or peripheral nervous system (PNS). This can cause neurological symptoms, and about 30 ...