Could your childhood cat have shaped your mental health more than you think? A sweeping review of research spanning 44 years and 11 countries has revived a long-standing, and often contentious, debate ...

Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood mental health disorders in our communities. Often dismissed as witchcraft or demonic possession, the condition silently affects hundreds of thousands of ...

In today’s fast-paced world, stress has become an almost constant companion for many of us. While a certain amount of stress can be motivating and even beneficial, chronic stress can have severe ...

If you have schizophrenia, work can be challenging. Completing tasks, attending meetings, and making quotas may seem extra daunting. The reason: Certain symptoms, such as disorganized speech, ...

Patients with type 2 diabetes and a preexisting severe mental illness are prescribed metformin and insulin sooner after ...

Tammie Lee Demler, PharmD, a board-certified psychiatric pharmacist who works at a Buffalo inpatient psychiatric practice site, is all too familiar with the stigmas and misconceptions facing people ...

Scientists have discovered that a single gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness—something previously thought to stem only from many genes acting together. People with certain variants of this ...

Drinking a maximum of 3–4 cups of coffee a day may slow the "biological" aging of people with severe mental illness, by ...

Nearly half of Americans are affected by cardiovascular disease, while about one in four lives with a mental health condition ...