July 2026 What if mental-health awareness does not merely reveal disorders, but alters the threshold at which ordinary experience is interpreted as one? In a double-blind randomized trial, 215 healthy young adults attended a workshop on ADHD, ADHD plus a ten-minute explanation of nocebo effects, or sleep. The ADHD-awareness group reported higher self-diagnosis scores than controls immediately (standardized β = 0.80) and one week later (β = 0.50), although their reported ADHD

July 2026 What if a psychiatric disorder begins in an infected organ, but becomes “mental” the moment medicine loses sight of its trajectory? A US health-record study compared more than one million matched pairs after hospitalization. Across infections affecting ten bodily systems, subsequent risks of most psychiatric and neurological diagnoses were elevated over two years. Against patients hospitalized for noninfectious causes, 116 of 140 infection–disorder comparisons showe

July 2026 If mental-health trajectories are partly produced within peer environments, why does psychiatry continue to record the outcome as an individual diagnosis? A Finnish cohort followed 604,819 people from age 17. Classmates’ psychiatric diagnoses were associated with later diagnoses, as was classmates’ family-based genetic risk—estimated from relatives’ records, not DNA. The associations remained after adjustment for the individual’s own familial risk and parental socio

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Abstract Objective Increases in depression among adolescents have been concurrent with increases in digital media use. In this article,...