Category Archives: Depression

PTSD and the DSM-5 | Mind the Brain – PLOS Blogs Network

More than thirty-five years after the 1980 recognition of PTSD in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the data are unequivocal: Today there can be no doubt about the validity of PTSD as a …

Borderline Personality Disorder: Facts vs. Myths | World of Psychology

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric condition marked by a pattern of unstable and stormy relationships, an unformed sense of identity, chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom, unstable moods, …

This Treatment Beats Light Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder …

The talk therapy was cognitive behavioral therapy, a treatment approach that taught people to challenge negative thoughts about dark winter months and to avoid behaviors, such as social isolation, that can harm mood.

Protein findings open new avenues to understanding and treatment …

Stem cells from adult schizophrenia patients form new proteins more slowly than those from healthy people, according to new research.

The 5 Most Common Misconceptions About Mental Illness …

Believing these common myths about mental illness is keeping us sick.