Month: August 2015

Questioning Answers: Social Anxiety Disorder and autism (again)

A brief blog post discussing further research suggestive that social anxiety disorder (SAD) may be prevalent in cases of adult autism.

How Getting Diagnosed as Schizoaffective Bipolar Helped Save My …

You deserve to have the best possible life – but if you're anything like this comic artist was, you may not see a point in getting mental health care. Follow along with the steps Crass took to get psychological help, and you'll get …

My Battles with Severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and …

I have obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. I was diagnosed the summer before my freshman year in high school, though I likely dealt with one or both illnesses for most of my life to that point.

Intelligence, creativity and bipolar disorder may share underlying …

Study linking high childhood IQ with bipolar traits later in life suggests that mood disorders may be the genetic price we pay for intelligence and creativity.

Retinal changes may serve as measures of brain pathology in …

Schizophrenia is associated with structural and functional alterations of the visual system, including specific structural changes in the eye. Tracking such changes may provide new measures of risk for, and progression of the …