Research is showing that untreated mental illness alone confers a higher risk of worsening physical ailments. Recent research is showing that mental illness can lead to the progression of physical ailments. In a recent New York Times column, Jane Brody speaks with Dr....
An adequate amount of sleep per night (around 7 hours minimum) is critical to our immune system and overall brain health. It is a restorative process and people who consistently get less sleep are more prone to a host of psychiatric and physical diseases. Sleep,...
Somatic symptom disorders involve patients overwhelmingly preoccupied with physical symptoms that do not seem to point to a medical diagnosis. Whereas for most people an uncomfortable bodily sensation may be shrugged off or seen as part of the everyday experience,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an indescribable amount of trauma globally. In this podcast, Atlantic staff writer, Ed Yong, discusses the traumas people have experienced and why it will take some time for healing to occur. In a recent Atlantic piece, Ed Yong...
Although the full spectrum of COVID-19 sequelae will take some time to ascertain, a recent retrospective cohort found higher incidences of neurological and psychiatric diagnoses in patients with COVID-19 than in control patients. Even higher incidences of these...