Credit: Getty Images Some rare psychological disorders may occur so infrequently that most mental health professionals might never encounter them. Approximately 1 of every 5 adults in the United ...

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are serious mental health conditions that often begin in late teenage years or early ...

In a decade-long analysis of University of California health system data, researchers assess early-onset mental health disorders after cancer diagnosis and subsequent survival trends.

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. For many patients, the emotional toll of cancer can become a hidden risk factor, one that may influence survival as much as the disease itself. Study: Association of mental ...

Teens may be able to pass on mental disorders to each other, a new study has found. According to a new paper in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, ninth-grade students with school friends with a mental ...

A new study of more than 700,000 people living in Finland found that mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, and eating disorders could potentially be transmitted socially within adolescent peer ...

Ben Bullock receives funding from Australian Rotary Health and the Barbara Dicker Brain Sciences Foundation. He is a member of the Sleep Health Foundation. This article is the next in The Conversation ...