Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by persistent depressed mood, loss of
interest or pleasure in previously enjoyable activities, recurrent thoughts of death, and …

Over the past decade, the gut microbiota has emerged as a key component in regulating
brain processes and behavior. Diet is one of the major factors involved in shaping the gut …

Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental
health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental …

Preventive approaches have latterly gained traction for improving mental health in young
people. In this paper, we first appraise the conceptual foundations of preventive psychiatry …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have had adverse
impacts on physical and mental health worldwide and exposed all segments of the …

For decades, cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBTs) have been tested in randomized
controlled trials for specific psychiatric syndromes that were assumed to represent …

Decades of research have revealed numerous risk factors for mental disorders beyond
genetics, but their consistency and magnitude remain uncertain. We conducted a “meta …

Schizophrenia substantially contributes to the burden of mental disorders. Schizophrenia's
burden and epidemiological estimates in some countries have been published, but updated …

Mobile phone-based interventions have been proposed as a means for reducing the burden
of disease associated with mental illness. While numerous randomized controlled trials and …

Since previous meta-analyses, which were limited only to depression and by a small
number of studies available for inclusion at the time of publication, several additional studies …