At the core of anorexia nervosa is one of our most basic bodily needs, nourishment.

Foundation-supported researchers are featured in Wall Street Journal article

Can we lessen the likelihood of getting psychiatric disorders?

Recent brain scan analysis suggests four distinct kinds of depression, says Conor Liston, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Feil Family Brain & Mind

The search for the seeds of psychosis goes back to the very start of psychiatry. In the late 19th century, Emil Kraepelin, one of the first adherents of the idea that mental disorders have biological causes, described psychosis as a form of early-onset dementia.

On October 27, 2017, we hosted our International Mental Health Research Symposium in New York City.

An important discovery has been made at the University of Pittsburgh. It raises the prospect that there may be an entirely new way of relieving major depression in people who repeatedly have failed to respond to existing treatments—people at elevated risk for suicide

A disorder that affects nearly two percent of the population and 10 percent of psychiatric patients is strikingly absent from common conversation.

Foundation President and CEO, Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D. is quoted in an article from Scientific American about a research study featured in the Foundation's top 10 research advancements of 2016.

Some of the most talked-about risk factors for depression, like genetics and the wiring of the brain, are not things that one can easily change. These are far from the only things that can contribute to depression, however, and within this complexity is a message of empowerment, according to