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Researchers found that genetics play a minor yet crucial role in severe depression resistant to standard treatments.

Four years and more than 100 reports ago David Lazer formed the COVID States Project to analyze the pandemic with objectivity.

Doctors have hit out at a top psychiatrist, who received funds from pharma companies, for suggesting antidepressants should be given over-the-counter.

Much has been written about the psychological difficulties of navigating a life online. However, is it really all bad? Kate Demolder writes

The paradox of techno-optimism by embattled tech CEOs and prominent figures of psychiatry at a huge conference on the future of mental health.

A woman receives a dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine during the coronavirus pandemic at a sports stadium in Vina del Mar, Chile, April 22, 2021.

A total of three per cent of SARS‐CoV‐2–exposed children received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis during the first 12 months of life

A COVID-19 infection during pregnancy could increase the risk of neurodevelopmental delays in baby boys. According to the study, which was published in the JAMA Network Open Journal, they’re nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with delays in brain development, compared to other boys. That’s the conclusion that they reached after studying more than […]

The study involved more than 18,000 children born at eight hospitals in Massachusetts. Almost 900 of them were born to women who had COVID-19 while pregnant.

Boys born to mothers who got COVID-19 while pregnant seem to have a higher risk of subtle developmental delays, including those associated with autism spectrum disorder.