https://medicalxpress.com/psychiatry-news/ en-us Latest medical news and research in Psychiatry Infants born to mothers with depressive symptoms immediately after delivery had a substantially higher risk of dying before their first birthday, according to researchers involved in a Rutgers-led study of more than 414,000 births in New Jersey. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-maternal-postpartum-depressive-symptoms-linked.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:40:13 EDT news708871314 Researchers are warning that inconsistent use of the terms "neurodiversity" and "neurodivergence" in mental health research could obscure important differences between diagnoses and make findings harder to interpret. They also say using the terms without further specification could encourage "one-size-fits-all" approaches in clinics, schools and workplaces that can overlook individual care and support needs. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-inconsistent-neurodivergence-language-complicate-patient.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:20:01 EDT news708868634 The eyes are more than lenses to the outside world; they can also be windows that offer a glimpse into what's happening inside our bodies. What if the eyes could help us understand how attention shifts from one moment to the next? Scientists are now testing whether tiny changes in pupil size can serve as a physiological marker of these fluctuations in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-children-pupils-reveal-shifting-attention.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:10:01 EDT news708875735 A new clinical trial led by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience has found that exercise has a significant effect on mood and lab-based measures of new brain cell formation in healthy middle-aged participants. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-clinical-physical-trial-mood-neuron.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:40:03 EDT news708870541 People with a severe mental illness die more than 10 years earlier than the general population, research led by The University of Queensland has found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-people-mental-illness-die-younger.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:20:07 EDT news708867844 The term "neurodivergent" is being used more and more often in everyday conversation, on social media and even in scientific research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-neurodivergent-catchall-term-problematic.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:06 EDT news708862322 UTHealth Houston researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can perform a mental health evaluation at nearly the same level of accuracy as a team of psychiatrists. The results of their work, done in collaboration with Yale University and published in npj Mental Health Research, bring the team a step closer to deploying the model in educational and clinical settings. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-ai-tool-nears-psychiatrist-accuracy.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:20:04 EDT news708853381 Girls from multilingual and immigrant families could be missing out on ADHD support, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. ADHD is already known to be underrecognized in girls, whose symptoms are often less externally visible than those seen in boys. But a major new study suggests that language and cultural factors could further delay diagnosis, causing girls to miss out on vital support during some of the most important years of their education. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-adhd-diagnosis-gap-girls-immigrant.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:00:13 EDT news708847681 A new national study of suicide rates across occupations in Australia shows blue-collar male workers are still substantially overrepresented, underscoring the need for greater attention to occupation-specific factors that might increase risk. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-blue-collar-workers-highest-suicide.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:04 EDT news708846121 New research from the CU Anschutz Marcus Institute for Brain Health shows that irritability is strongly associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, chronic pain and difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments among military veterans with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-concussions-veterans-linked-ptsd-chronic.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:00:01 EDT news708761340 The number of Americans who have personally been victims of physical or sexual violence is much higher than one might think, a new report says. More than half of U.S. adults have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes, and nearly half have experienced sexual violence, researchers found. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-americans-victims-violence.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:40:02 EDT news708761396 A study reveals that your genes may make you more vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from certain types of trauma—particularly childhood neglect—than from others. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-genetic-ptsd-vary-trauma-experienced.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:00:05 EDT news708696781 Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that individuals with bulimia nervosa have structural differences in brain regions involved in reward and motivation, as well as social and sensory processing, and that more frequent binge eating is associated with more widespread differences in brain structure, according to research published today in JAMA Psychiatry. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-binge-widespread-brain-differences-bulimia.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:08 EDT news708790201 Emergency department (ED) visits for gambling disorders doubled following the legalization of single-event sports betting and expansion of Ontario's online gambling market, according to a new study from ICES. The increase was observed predominantly among young men. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-emergency-department-gambling-disorders-ontario.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:10:01 EDT news708682741 Stanford Medicine scientists have chalked up a major advance in growing human brain cells outside the human brain—and outside laboratory glassware. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-mice-human-brain-organoids-space.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:40:03 EDT news708775982 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect attention, activity levels and impulse control, with symptoms often beginning in childhood and sometimes continuing into adulthood. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-reveals-brain-protein-adhd.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:40:01 EDT news708771259 UC San Francisco researchers are weighing in on one of the biggest challenges in psychedelic science, arguing that clinical trials need more convincing placebo treatments to better measure the drugs' true effects. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-psychedelic-clinical-trials.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:00:10 EDT news708683883 Understanding and preventing suicide often focuses on why people want to die—but a Yale researcher is calling for a shift to a more constructive, humanizing starting point. Christine Cha, PhD, stresses the importance of focusing on why many people who feel suicidal keep trying to live. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-storm-daily.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:40:06 EDT news708771387 Caregivers of people with cancer, heart problems and other long-term illnesses report needing more psychological support but often stop short of accessing it. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-caregivers-worldwide-sacrifice-years.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:10:01 EDT news708610922 When something in the human body goes awry, medical science has an impressive repair kit. Fractured leg? A cast will keep it intact until it heals. Cloudy eye lens? Doctors swap in a clear artificial one. A kidney that can't filter blood? Dialysis temporarily outsources the job. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-quiet-mind-brain.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:40:09 EDT news708762362 A summer intervention program for autistic children ages 4–6 with no intellectual disability significantly improved their social performance, according to a study by researchers at the Institute for Autism Research (IAR) at the University at Buffalo. It was published in Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-autistic-children-ages-social-skills.html Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:00:03 EDT news708752402 Exposure to air pollutants, especially small particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), may heighten the risk of death by suicide and suicidal thoughts, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-air-pollutant-exposure-linked-heightened.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:30:02 EDT news708604801 Swinburne University of Technology and Entropy Neurodynamics' world's first IV-infused psilocin binge-eating disorder trial has led to improvements in all participants. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-world-psilocin-binge-disorder-trial.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:20:07 EDT news708685310 Exposure to stress during critical developmental windows significantly increases the risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders in adulthood. While women and sexual- and gender-minority groups experience higher rates of adversity and stress-related disorders, the underlying biological mechanisms driving these sex-influenced vulnerabilities remain poorly understood. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-trauma-brain-differ-significantly-males.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:00:04 EDT news708702724 Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and an inadequate response to standard antidepressants who received add-on treatment with the drug lumateperone had significantly improved sexual function, according to a new study led by a University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-drug-sexual-function-patients-depression.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:00:08 EDT news708697330 Numerous types of thoughts pass through your mind over the course of a day. You may be reminiscing about your last vacation, thinking about a news story, recalling a funny conversation or brainstorming ideas for weekend plans. Not only are these thoughts highly prevalent in everyday life, but they also have wide-ranging impacts on how we function. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-daydreams-mindwandering-rumination-affect-mood.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:40:08 EDT news708684242 Spending more time on social media is making Canadian teenagers—especially girls—feel anxious, depressed and disconnected, according to a study co-led by University of Alberta researchers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-social-media-anxiety-depression-teens.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:02 EDT news708680462 Every year, an estimated 20 million people worldwide sustain a concussion or other traumatic brain injury (TBI), which leads to a two- to fourfold increase in the risk of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet not everyone who experiences a TBI goes on to develop psychiatric symptoms. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-blood-protein-linked-depression-ptsd.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:20:04 EDT news708669781 Interacting with animals can make people feel calmer, less lonely and less anxious. A new study from the University of California, Davis, shows that animals play an active role in shaping these interactions and their outcomes. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-minutes-miniature-horses-donkeys-mood.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:00:17 EDT news708596941 Every day, your brain runs the same calculation: Take a risk or play it safe? Your gas tank might be low, but there's just enough to make it to work on time. Do you stop and risk being late? If you're out of money at the casino, do you quit playing slots or withdraw more cash from the ATM? Talk to a stranger at the park or stay quiet? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-scientists-brain-regions.html Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:00:11 EDT news708597002