Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with a mental disorder, nearly double the number recorded in 1990. According to a new study, this stark rise has placed mental disorders as the leading ...

Bolton is a senior scientist in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Years ago, I was the only physician serving a small country town and its ...

Mood disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. These types of psychiatric disorders affect a person’s emotions and may cause severe lows, called depression, and highs, called mania ...

The sharp rise in mental health diagnoses among young people has ignited a polarizing debate. Many identify global upheavals as the source of the surge in mental illness — Covid-19, social media, ...

Common mental health conditions are more closely related to people's personalities than previously thought, a study suggests. Personality traits explain about a quarter of the overall risk of mental ...

Trauma experienced during childhood is associated with a substantially higher risk of developing overlapping physical and ...