People often use ADD and ADHD interchangeably. Discover the medical history behind these terms and why doctors updated the official diagnosis years ago.

A new review of 26 studies including more than 100,800 women found the risk of developing postpartum depression is nearly double when individuals’ families have a history of psychiatric disorders.

Children who have an older sibling with autism spectrum disorder (autism) are at greater risk of developmental vulnerabilities if they also have other relatives with neurodevelopmental or psychiatric ...

Psychiatry got its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerned itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or ...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Praxis Press) Family history of mental illness is a risk for many disorders. Brief screens such as the Family History Screen (FHS) to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are ...