Introduction Eating disorders (EDs) are complex psychological and physiological disorders that often co-occur in the presence of other mental health difficulties. Mentalisation-based therapy (MBT) ...

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that includes at least one manic episode – characterized by elevated or agitated mood and often reduced need for sleep – accompanied by episodes of major ...

There is a positive association between daily caffeine consumption and growth in conduct from ages 11 to 13, a relationship which is mediated by a growth in daytime sleepiness. Adolescents who ...

Purging disorder is a type of eating disorder in which a person self-induces vomiting or uses laxatives, enemas, or diuretics ("water pills") to purge the body of food they have eaten. It differs from ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms affecting movement or the senses, like paralysis or blindness, with no physiological cause. In the past, such ...

ADHD and bipolar disorder have some overlapping symptoms, which can make diagnosis difficult. But symptoms of ADHD tend to appear before the age of 12. Bipolar disorder may start later.

In warnings echoed by the Priory, the UK’s leading eating disorder charity Beat said it is seeing an “incredibly worrying” rise in the number of calls made to its helpline regarding the ...

The term “pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs)” was used by the medical community to describe developmental delays in children, including problems with socializing and communicating ...

Diagnosis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is often delayed due to symptom ... This inspired the researchers to conduct a retrospective cohort study to determine if machine learning models ...

including anxiety (9.5 percent in 2020 to 11 percent in 2022), behavioral and conduct problems (9.2 percent in 2019 to 10.3 percent in 2022), and autism spectrum disorder (3 percent in 2019 to 4. ...

WARNING: This story contains offensive language. A whistleblower who sparked an internal probe into the conduct of three Coquitlam RCMP officers says he witnessed blatant racist and sexist ...

People with alcohol use disorder (AUD) have high rates of co-occurring mental health conditions. Symptoms of mental health conditions and an excessive alcohol intake may contribute to each other ...