Eating disorders should be taken seriously. They are serious medical and mental health conditions that could potentially be fatal.

Most eating disorders… » »   

Accumulating evidence indicates that childhood trauma experience (CTE) may be an environmental susceptibility factor for a variety of psychiatric disorders, including alcohol dependence (AD).… » »   

Depression increases the risk of death in patients who have a coronary stent implanted. After seven years of follow up, depressed patients were 1.5… » »   

Scientists have gained insight into why lithium salts are effective at treating bipolar disorder in what could lead to more targeted therapies with fewer… » »   

For every individual who’s a victim of Alzheimer’s - some 5.4 million persons in the United States alone — there’s a related victim: the… » »   

Teens who watch movies in which the characters are drinking alcohol may be more likely to drink in excess, a European study showed.

Chronic stress may lead to memory problems by interfering with glutamate signaling in the prefrontal cortex, according to a study in mice.

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People released from New York City jails face an increased risk of death from drug overdose, homicide or suicide - especially in the first… » »   

A ‘GENTLE and fun-loving’ man who had a history of depression killed himself with a double-barrelled shotgun, an inquest has heard.

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Some research has suggested that religious people may have a buffer against major depression - but new findings cast some doubt on that.