Psychiatry

With high morbidity and mortality, prompt recognition is important, and treatment can be straightforward and effective.

When fathers' depression in early childhood goes undiagnosed or untreated, the social and behavioural effects on children persist well into their school years.

Informing patients that they have elevated amyloid-beta plaques in their brain can lighten their emotional distress—but can also correlate with less favourable behaviour.

In the face of what the WHO has called 'a crisis of social isolation and loneliness,' studies find reading for pleasure, alone or in book groups, has multiple benefits for all ages.

A psychiatrist offers up advice from his years of experience.

Meta-analysis evaluates psychiatric, cognitive and quality-of-life outcomes with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist treatment.

UNICEF’s 19th Report Card suggests one in five youth in Canada face frequent bullying, one in five are lonely and one in four struggle to make friends.

Inhibitory control is a core component of executive function and it contributes to cognitive, emotional and social development—but one psychiatrist says this study raises more questions than it answers.