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LONDON: The high court in London on Tuesday began hearing evidence from two leading experts in the field of psychiatry to determine the level of suicide risk faced by Nirav Modi if he is extradited to India to face charges of fraud and money laundering, amounting to an estimated $2…

Eske Derks of QIMR Berghofer is challenging the scientific community to deliver a new era of precision psychiatry through the "extraordinary genetic discoveries".

In 2011 I was a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. I was on my psychiatry rotation — and I had a secret.

The most popular depression drugs taken by millions don’t work by fixing an “imbalance of the brain's neurotransmitters,” as many drug advertisements claim or imply. That’s because depression isn’t caused by a chemical imbalance, according to a new analysis published in Molecular Psychiatry. That doesn’t necessarily mean people should stop…

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KOLKATA: According to the statistics available at SSKM's Institute of Psychiatry - Centre of Excellence (IOP), the institute receives at least 10-15 referred mental health cases from the armed forces a month.

Manjula Datta O’Connor is a clinical psychiatrist and chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Family Violence Psychiatry Network. She has a particular interest in the mental health experiences of migrant women affected by family violence. She has been supporting women in her clinical practice for…

Amid surging interest in mental health

LUCKNOW: While digital literacy is an essential skill in today’s time, the use of smartphones for entertainment must be regulated in the interest of children. Dr Adarsh Tripathi, associate professor of psychiatry at KGMU, says parents must be specifically careful till their child is six-year-old.