Personality Disorders News

A Seattle-based company announced it has secured $8 million in seed funding to promote an artificial intelligence-powered platform to assist in mental health assessments.

A mental health nonprofit has announced 11 companies will make up the inaugural cohort of a program that aims to help startups improve the lives of those with challenges relating to mental health conditions.

For informal caregivers of those hospitalized for mental illness, affiliated stigma was a full mediator between their role as caregiver and their involvement with patients, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

For individuals prescribed antipsychotic medication, nonadherence, along with switching and stopping medication, was associated with increases in acute care utilization, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

In children with familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, evidence of motor impairment skills may indicate neurodevelopmental vulnerability for psychosis.

Individuals diagnosed with a personality disorder benefited from interventions delivered in community or outpatient settings, with all therapeutic approaches demonstrating similar efficacy, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

The needs of families are largely unmet when a parent is hospitalized for a mental illness, with the need for a broad range of care models required to address these gaps, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

A physician-owned acute care practice and a virtual psychiatry and therapy practice have announced a partnership that aims to provide comprehensive acute medical and psychiatric care services to EDs across the country.

For psychiatric nurses in China, occupational stress was negatively associated with psychological resilience and state of mental health, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.

Factors for risk for rehospitalization for those with psychiatric disorders included suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, previous hospitalization and longer stay in hospital, according to a study published in BMC Psychiatry.