New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has found that excessive smartphone use is closely associated with disordered eating, ...

About The Study: The findings of this cohort study suggest that sexual assault may increase the risk of developing functional somatic disorder (FSD), involving multiple body systems. Functional ...

Symptomatic syndrome is common in ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome and linked to greater psychological burden. “Somatic symptom disorder (SSD) is characterized by distressing somatic ...

Sex differences may affect neurocognitive performance and somatic outcomes in people with bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ), new research suggested. Significant interactions between sex and ...

Former President Donald Trump is under renewed health scrutiny after two clinical psychologists claimed he is showing a “dead ringer” symptom of a rare brain disease. Trump’s ‘Roadless Rule’ Repeal ...

Body dysmorphic disorder, also called body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition that affects how you view and feel about your body and appearance. It involves intense preoccupation with one or ...

As you can imagine, this type of somatic mimicry can create confusion in regard to what to do: Some people will rush to the emergency room, while others may experience even greater anxiety as they ...

If you've ever Googled a list of health symptoms — and become convinced you have a serious illness and are doomed — you might be suffering from hypochondria. Author Caroline Crampton wrote A Body Made ...

To describe the destructive effects of intense health anxiety to his young doctors in training at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, psychiatrist Brian Fallon likes to quote ...