Dissociative identity disorder is often rooted in chronic childhood trauma. Repeated abuse, neglect, and attachment disruptions can fragment a growing mind. Healing is possible.

While the concept of eating disorders has become more broadly discussed over the last few years, less is understood about the psychology behind them — namely, what is happening inside the brain of a ...

We’re seeing continued advances in making psychiatric diagnoses—and, therefore, improved treatment. A major step in this direction occurred in 2009 when the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) ...

Distinct psychiatric disorders have more in common biologically than previously believed, according to the largest and most detailed analysis to date of how genes influence mental illness. The study, ...

One eating disorder is becoming increasingly prevalent. Though it didn’t even have a name as early as 10 years ago, ARFID—which stands for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder—has seen a 200 ...

New research shows that people with eating disorders are more harshly judged than those suffering from depression, making it much harder for them to seek treatment. New research shows that people with ...

Among patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), those with both clinical and biochemical disease activity and two common mental disorders had a more than sixfold increased risk for ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...