Each monthly issue of The Lancet Psychiatry features original clinical research, expert reviews, and provocative comment and opinion in mental health, providing a clear, independent perspective about the clinical advances and practice-changing research shaping your specialty globally.
Conduct disorder in young people is associated with differences in surface area across much of the brain, compared to the brains of typically developing children, new research shows.
Jul 16, 2024
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Friends of young people who self-harm or have suicidal thoughts may need additional support to prevent negative outcomes to their own mental well-being, in addition to the support needed by young people who self-harm.
Jul 15, 2024
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For someone stopping taking antidepressants, the risk of experiencing one or more discontinuation symptoms (also called withdrawal symptoms), such as dizziness, headache, nausea, insomnia and irritability due directly to ...
Jun 5, 2024
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New research has found that women with a history of severe mental illness face a lower risk of relapse after giving birth in regions where they have access to a community perinatal mental health team (CPMHT).
Jan 23, 2024
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A large proportion of patients who start taking ADHD medication, especially young adults, stop within the first year. However, people who use ADHD medicine for a long time and in higher-than-average doses seem to have a higher ...
Nov 28, 2023
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Children who are the youngest in their class to be identified with ADHD are just as likely to keep the diagnosis as older pupils in their year group, scientists have found.
Oct 26, 2023
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Narcissistic personality traits are related to poorer response to psychotherapeutic treatment. This is the result of a German multi-site study with more than 2,000 participants receiving inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy. ...
Oct 16, 2023
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While advance directives are quite common for patients with physical impairments, advance directives for people with mental impairments are controversial. In many countries, including Germany, there are as yet no legal provisions ...
Sep 13, 2023
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New work led by researchers at the University of Exeter, King's College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool has found that women who had at least one contact with mental ...
Aug 15, 2023
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A global study co-led by researchers from The University of Queensland and Harvard Medical School has found one in two people will develop a mental health disorder in their lifetime.
Jul 31, 2023
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