One of the great challenges for psychiatric research is arriving at a reliable way of diagnosing bipolar disorder, and doing so as early in the course of the illness as possible so as to boost the…
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In people who experience a first psychotic episode—often the prelude to schizophrenia and related disorders—the individual’s response to antipsychotic medicines can be crucial, and typically, varies…
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Researchers say they have identified an objective biomarker of recovery in major depression that in a small cohort of treatment-resistant patients was able (on an ongoing basis) to capture whether…
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The symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be debilitating. Those affected experience intrusive, distressing, and often irrational thoughts (“obsessions”) which are accompanied by…
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Researchers studying changes in levels of stress and appetite hormones in women recovering from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa (AN) report that it may be possible to predict certain serious…
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