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Dec. 17, 2020 A pattern in how the brain breaks down tryptophan, a common amino acid consumed through food, was ...
Oct. 8, 2021 Adolescents who had received a mental health disorder diagnosis were often excluded from the labor market and education as young adults. This particularly applied to adolescents who had been ...
Apr. 12, 2022 Conduct disorder (CD) is a common yet complex psychiatric disorder featuring aggressive and destructive behavior. Factors contributing to the development of CD span biological, psychological, and ...
Feb. 9, 2021 A 'biological age' score predicts that being male, overweight, a smoker and having depression all contribute to biological aging, a new study ...
Dec. 6, 2021 Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age but occur at different times in different people. These ...
Oct. 27, 2021 Research on around 386,000 UK adults has found that a high genetic risk for schizophrenia and other mental health conditions, including bipolar disorder, anorexia and autism, is associated with ...
Nov. 9, 2023 Research and treatment of psychiatric disorders are stymied by a lack of biomarkers -- objective biological or physiological markers that can help diagnose, track, predict, and treat diseases. In a ...
Oct. 26, 2022 When the world shut down in March of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people the world over experienced profound psychological stress to varying degrees. Now, a new study takes advantage of the ...
Jan. 11, 2023 Neuroimaging technology has been shown to hold great promise in helping clinicians link specific symptoms of mental health disorders to abnormal patterns of brain activity. But a new study shows ...
Sep. 20, 2023 A new evaluation tool offers practical guidance for diagnosing an extreme form of social isolation known as hikikimori. The tool is the first structured technique to evaluate people who suffer from a ...