Mental Health Articles

Recent research may have uncovere the reason Alzheimer's and other brain diseases seem both to be caused by and to cause serious sleep disturbances and loss of sense of time.

Sooner or later, most of us run into someone who might be diagnosed as having a psychopathic personality disorder. If we're lucky, we aren't living with them. But the encounter with psychopathy in daily life can help us understand their contributions.

Nobody is perfect, but people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder are affected by their perceived flaws so much that they can't enjoy life and may seek repeated plastic surgery procedures in an attempt to feel better.

Experiments done using the human stem cells have successfully identified the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) which is responsible for the action of antidepressant drugs.

Two research teams, one operating in Britain and the other in the United States, have announced the first discovery of the first reliable evidence that specific, multiple genes may be responsible for one kind of depression

People who suffer depression tend to blur the details of single events into patterns of events that tell a depressing story. People who suffer depression as part of post-traumatic stress syndrome, in particular, tend to blur the details of stressful event

The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-5, arrives in May of 2013. Controversy surrounding new disease definitions, however, has been raging for years.

Hypochondria is a mental disorder in which the person has the belief that he or she is suffering from a serious illness.

Eating disorders and alcohol abuse have often been found to co-exist. A recent study shows that there could be a genetic linkage between the two. Read on to find out about more about the study.

On this World Alzheimer's Day, we take a fresh look at the question of how to know whether forgetfulness is a sign of early Alzheimer's.