Psychiatry

Pansexual, asexual, questioning, transgender and two-spirit people had the highest levels of anxiety. They also had, along with lesbians, relatively high levels of depression.

People believe some pretty strange things sometimes. Do you believe you can ace a quiz on delusions? Find out here!

Large language models and chatbots are widely accessible, and often framed as supportive, empathic or even therapeutic. For most users, these systems are helpful or, at worst, benign.

Time blindness is the inability to determine how long a task will take or conceptualize how much time has passed and it is a well-documented characteristic of many people with ADHD.

Canadian researchers examine reports of cataracts associated with antipsychotic prescriptions using the US adverse event reporting system.

Telomere length, liver disease, atrial fibrillation: Recent research shows that coffee may play a more nuanced—and sometimes more favourable—role than previously thought.

The World Happiness Report suggests young people have become Canada’s unhappiest age group, a complete reversal of long-standing trends. Reasons for their woes may be disparate, but a growing field of research posits that the world is once again in a polycrisis—a group of interconnected ongoing crises that all affect one another.

Experts say that although people in their 20s are adults, expecting them to immediately transfer to adult mental health services can be a challenge and programs aimed at helping the transition play a critical role helping them build a stable adult life.