mental disorders

Absolute and relative outcomes of psychotherapies for eight mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.21203 Psychotherapies are first-line treatments for most mental disorders, but their absolute outcomes (i.e., response and...

Abstract Biological research has produced major advances in our understanding of our bodies and, where systems go wrong, is producing remedies to address these, but it has yet to do the same for the mind. This is because no causative biological evidence has been found for the major mental...

Guardian - Opinion Nobody I’ve been locked up with in a psychiatric hospital felt ‘proud’ of their illness Eleanor de Jong It’s great mental health is now openly discussed but the sickest people I’ve known – myself included – have had almost no part in it In the 12 years since I was diagnosed...

Sex differences in the blood-brain barrier: Implications for mental health Dion-Albert L, Bandeira Binder L, Daigle B, Hong-Minh A, Lebel M, Menard C Prevalence of mental disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) are increasing at...

refers to 'chronic fatigue' throughout but then says https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01032-1

Might be of interest. It is getting a lot of attention in Denmark and Norway. The study is from Aarhus, a strong epicentre for psychosomatics and functional disorders, which makes me a bit wary whether there might be some politics involved here. Jama Psychiatry: A Nationwide study in Denmark of...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07750-x

Free full text: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2716981

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30152867

http://neurosciencenews.com/schizophrenia-blood-microbes-9107/

Posting with the hope that someone here might find this article illuminating/interesting and possibly discussion worthy. http://eiko-fried.com/all-mental-disorders-are-brain-disorders-not/ Also, the link within the text to this...

" Gaming addiction is to be listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the World Health Organisation. Its 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will include the condition "gaming disorder". The draft document describes it as a pattern of persistent or recurrent...

"Psychologists Claim ‘Selfitis’ – The Obsessive Need To Post Selfies – Is Now A Mental Disorder This might be coming as a bad news to selfie-takers as psychologists have warned that ‘Selfitis’ – the obsessive need to post selfies on social media – is now a mental disorder; meaning it could have...