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Psychiatric Times
JULY 14, 2025
Emerging research on RNA biomarkers, AI applications, and genetic mutations shows promise for developing new diagnostic tools for bipolar disorder. 2 With the potential benefits of developing lab-based diagnostic tools, there are unfortunately no definitive blood tests for bipolar disorder currently.
Mad in America
APRIL 22, 2025
Understanding these hidden dynamics can facilitate reflection on psychiatric institutions and increase the awareness of the social and cultural factors embedded in mental health assessment. The definition important tasks shows that the question is about something that should be taken seriously. Both have since been updated.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.
Mad in America
MARCH 20, 2024
Mad in America has previously examined the problems with conflicts of interest in research but this time we extend that to look at the potential effect of COIs on diagnostic tools such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Cosgrove: Definitely. We don’t see that in the mental health field.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. This heterogeneity makes it difficult to generalise.
Real Psychiatry
APRIL 18, 2025
Two questionnaires were administered at baseline one to look at psychosocial determinants and risk factors for mental illness and the other for substance use history. Just looking at the sequence of events I have described here the relationship between cannabis and psychosis is probable to definite according to this scale.
Lawyers with Depression
JANUARY 28, 2024
Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. This is the medical definition of depression. However, this definition fails to capture the experience of what its like to be depressed. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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