Researchers at University of Texas at Dallas found regular physical activity for three months could help ease mood symptoms ...

Psychosis is when a person loses touch with reality. This is the definition most recognized by the general public, and yes, it's simplistic and reductionistic. A more deeply textured definition would ...

A brief psychotic disorder is a psychiatric condition characterized by sudden and temporary periods of psychotic behavior, such as delusions, hallucinations, and confusion. Symptoms can endure for ...

PsyMetRiC is designed to be simple and easy to use in clinical practice, and requires only simple, routinely-recorded ...

A new clinic-ready web-based risk prediction tool called PsyMetRiC is now available to forecast the risk of young people with ...

UCSF researcher Daniel Mathalon, MD, PhD, believes that burgeoning knowledge about biomarkers — biological measures of a ...

Each year, the last week of February is recognized as Eating Disorder Awareness Week. In the days leading up to it, my inbox typically floods with reminders of deadly statistics, ...

Auditory and visual hallucinations are hallmark symptoms of psychosis, but in the prodromal stage, a patient might describe hearing whispers or footsteps or notice brief distortions when looking at ...

Psychotic disorders can cause symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. Conditions include schizophrenia, drug-induced episodes, and more. Mental health treatment usually involves a combination of ...

In a recent study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers investigate the link between psychotic disorders and youth cannabis use. To this end, cannabis use was found to increase ...

Both schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia cause psychosis. With schizoaffective disorder, however, you may also have prominent mood symptoms. In schizophrenia, people don’t typically have mood ...