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Viewpoint: Stop Critiquing the DSM 5
The manual still has merit—but the APA needs to do a better job explaining how DSM 5 captures key facts about human suffering.
First Genetic Markers That Predict Postpartum Depression
Researchers say that a blood test may soon identify which pregnant women are at highest risk of developing postpartum depression, so they can seek treatment that...
Mental Health Researchers Reject Psychiatry’s New Diagnostic ‘Bible’
Just weeks before psychiatry’s new diagnostic “bible”—the DSM 5— is set to be released, the world’s major funder of mental health research has announced that it...
Psychopaths and Callous Children Show Dysfunctional Brain Responses to People In Pain
Children who cruelly disregard other people’s pain and psychopathic criminal offenders show dysfunction in similar brain regions— but new research finds that the...
Brain Scans Can Predict Which Alcoholics Are Most Likely to Relapse
For any addiction, external cues and stress can trigger cravings that are hard to resist, and the latest research points to an area of the brain that might be...
“Take Two Wars and Call Me in the Mourning”
There is something out of whack with the way the nation treats its troops' mental ills. You can see it in the data, sense it in the stories they tell, and feel...
Study: Women Abused As Kids More Likely To Have Children With Autism
The results are the first to suggest a trans-generational contributor to the developmental disorder. The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, is...
What Really Causes Violence in Psychosis?
The latest study investigates how anger anger associated with delusions — not simply being out of touch with reality — is critical in determining whether...
Aging Out of Autism
There's no shortage of therapies for autism, some of which work well, some not so well. But there is one simple treatment that hasn't been getting the attention...
How Gender Stereotypes Warp Our View of Depression
Gender stereotypes may influence our views about depression.
