Psychiatry got its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerned itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or ...

A new review of 26 studies including more than 100,800 women found the risk of developing postpartum depression is nearly double when individuals’ families have a history of psychiatric disorders.

Children who have an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder (autism) are at greater risk of developmental vulnerabilities if they also have other relatives with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Premorbid factors including obstetric complications, personal psychiatric background and IQ may help predict ...

Patients with bipolar disorder who have multiple family members with severe mental disorders, are more difficult to treat and require more medicine. But if they receive an intensive course of ...

But there is a lot to apologize for — from Reconstruction to today. Dr. Danielle Hairston, president of the American Psychiatric Association’s Black caucus. “They’re taking these tiny, superficial, ...