The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) has reached consensus on candidate biomarkers for anorexia ...

A preclinical study published in Biological Psychiatry has found that repeated low doses of psilocybin and MDMA reshape ...

A) Glass brain rendering of significant right basal ganglia cluster. B) Slices of the brain showing significant right brain cluster. C) Model of the moderation analysis with peripartum depression (PPD ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is not only characterized by strongly encoded traumatic memories, but also by disrupted coordination across brain networks. New research shows that treatment with ...

A new study investigating neuroinflammation in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain, a small, midbrain dopaminergic region, has found that acute and chronic depression are associated with ...

Depression is a mental health condition that affects 280 million people worldwide. It is twice as common in women than men and this pattern starts to develop during adolescence. Researchers have ...

A new report published earlier this month in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry suggests that research in biological psychiatry is often misrepresented to the public, leading to popular misconceptions ...

Biological psychiatry has come under attack in recent years. Antidepressant drugs, for instance, have been criticized on various fronts and have become particularly contentious (see, for example, ...

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 ...

When the third edition of psychiatry’s manual of mental illness, the DSM-III, was published 30 years ago, there was great optimism it would soon be the willing victim of its own success, achieving a ...

Using a novel lab method they developed, researchers have identified nine molecules in the blood that were elevated in teens diagnosed with depression. These molecules also predicted how symptoms ...