Until now, researchers assumed that schizophrenia, anxiety disorders or depression arise from an interplay of many different factors, including genetic ones. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – something previously believed to be the result of several mutations working ...

Poverty makes people up to three times more likely to suffer from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety compared to the wealthy, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday.

You’re not alone if you’ve experienced new or worsening mental illness after recovering from COVID. While the coronavirus’s long-term consequences on mental health remain a mystery, in the four years ...

Many years ago, I said to one of my doctors that I believed undiagnosed and/or untreated brain injury causes much mental illness. If we treat the neurons, then the illness will clear up. He hadn’t ...

Mental illness exists in a space scientists are still working to understand. Unlike many medical conditions with targeted treatments, mental health disorders often respond unpredictably, varying ...

In A Nutshell About one in ten cancer patients developed a new mental health disorder, most often anxiety or depression, within a year of their diagnosis. Those patients were 51% more likely to die ...