Food insecurity is not only linked with, but directly causes symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to research ...

New research demonstrates a swift directional relationship between food insecurity and increased anxiety and depression, highlighting the urgent need for interventions to improve mental health.

When it comes to mental health, most treatments for conditions like depression or anxiety come with caveats. Medications work for some symptoms, but can exacerbate others. Cognitive behavioral therapy ...

Although psychosomatic medicine is regarded as a branch of psychiatry in many countries, some of its diagnostic concepts are not fully encompassed by mainstream psychiatric diagnostic systems. When ...

Somatic complaints Common signs and symptoms of patients in our programs will include a great deal of somatic complaints (physical responses) to distress. In young children, parents and guardians ...

Higher intake of β-carotene, a marker of fruit and vegetable consumption, is linked to lower anxiety, fewer psychosomatic symptoms, and better quality of life in Swedish adolescents. No ...

New research shows non-invasive sound wave therapy can directly target deep brain regions, significantly reducing depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms.

This 7-item tool helps assess the severity of generalized anxiety disorder symptoms. Other tools, such as the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS), evaluate symptoms related to panic attacks.

However, our study highlights that some doctors do reach too quickly for a psychosomatic or mental health explanation for autoimmune disease symptoms.

Doctors routinely dismiss medical symptoms that have nothing to do with mental health as anxiety, experts say.