The ketogenic diet shows promise in reducing the symptoms of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and reversing metabolic syndrome, results of a new pilot study show.  Participants […]

Antipsychotic use in older adults with dementia is associated with a significant increased risk for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, fracture, acute kidney injury, and […]

Budapest, Hungary — Self-perceived loneliness during childhood is linked to a more than twofold increased risk for subsequent first-episode psychosis (FEP) — new findings that may […]

BUDAPEST — Only a handful of European countries have legislation in place that decriminalizes the act of physician-assisted dying for certain patients, such as those who […]

Premature opioid-related deaths doubled in Canada after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, and more than one in four deaths occurred in young adults, a new study […]

Combining D-limonene, a naturally occurring terpene in cannabis, with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive component in cannabis, may mitigate THC-induced anxiety, new data from a small […]

Budapest, Hungary — Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) dramatically improves disease severity and depressive symptoms in patients with severe mental illness, results of a large, naturalistic study showed. […]

SYNLAB and ALCEDIAG recently launched the first blood test to assist in mental health diagnosis in France. The test is aimed at differentiating bipolar disorders from […]

BUDAPEST — Europe is not on the brink of an opioid crisis anytime soon, according to research presented at the 32nd European Congress of Psychiatry (EPA […]