For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by altered thinking and ...

A MOTHER has bravely opened up on her battle with postpartum psychosis. Jade Lloyd, a maternal mental health advocate from the UK, was diagnosed with the rare and rapid-onset mental illness ...

We know there's a link between cannabis use and psychosis, though the odds vary widely from study to study. But it's still unclear exactly how the drug triggers psychosis, which can progress to ...

The study, published in The Canadian Medical Association Journal, found there was a 60 percent rise in diagnoses of psychotic disorders in people aged between 14 and 20 from 1997 to 2023. Diagnoses ...

The stress and sleepless nights that expectant and new mothers are faced with sometimes push their mental health way past the typical mood swings of the so-called baby blues. Some are faced with a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – A California woman avoided prison ...

People with cannabis use disorder (CUD) have higher dopamine levels in an area of the brain linked to psychosis, found a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry. The findings may help explain why ...

Millennials and Gen Z are being diagnosed with psychosis and schizophrenia at higher rates and younger ages than previous generations, a new study finds. Cases among teens and young adults rose ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition, and psychosis is a more general term that describes a range of experiences. They may both share similar symptoms, such as intrusive ...

Flinders University researchers have discovered a rare genetic mutation that could explain why some people do not respond to ...