The food industry has created ultra-processed food-like products that disrupt nature’s biological matrix and exploit our innate preferences for sugar, salt and fat — with the goal of ...

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that includes at least one manic episode – characterized by elevated or agitated mood and often reduced need for sleep – accompanied by episodes of major ...

This coincides with when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, which is a movement disorder of the nervous system. It can cause nerve cells in parts of the brain to weaken, become damaged ...

The municipality has acknowledged service disruptions caused by the recent public disorder, but it remains unstable. The alleged creation of a parallel mayoral structure and the circulation of ...

The Naylor siblings were all born with myotonic dystrophy, a genetic disorder that causes muscles to waste away. It wasn’t until later that the family knew something was wrong, so they made ...

Purging disorder is a type of eating disorder in which a person self-induces vomiting or uses laxatives, enemas, or diuretics ("water pills") to purge the body of food they have eaten. It differs from ...

Major sources of stress, such as the death of a loved one, divorce, problems in your family relationships, job loss, school, and substance abuse can trigger or worsen mental disorders you already ...

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms affecting movement or the senses, like paralysis or blindness, with no physiological cause. In the past, such ...

ADHD and bipolar disorder have some overlapping symptoms, which can make diagnosis difficult. But symptoms of ADHD tend to appear before the age of 12. Bipolar disorder may start later.

The term “pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs)” was used by the medical community to describe developmental delays in children, including problems with socializing and communicating ...

Ultimately, Chiles says that while she was never formally diagnosed with an eating disorder, she knows the relationship she subsequently developed with food wasn't healthy. She learned to restrict ...

People with alcohol use disorder (AUD) have high rates of co-occurring mental health conditions. Symptoms of mental health conditions and an excessive alcohol intake may contribute to each other ...