The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a significant increase in anxiety and depression worldwide. Individuals with pre-existing anxiety or OCD were particularly vulnerable to the mental health impacts of ...

Exposure and response prevention therapy, or ERP, has long been considered the gold-standard treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). ERP is in the family of cognitive-behavior therapy, or ...

The trend of increased social phobia in the modern era, especially among the youth, has become a topic that researchers have been pursuing and tackling in the long term. Simultaneously, almost three ...

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, a group of researchers evaluated the incidence, prevalence, and temporal changes in clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety among ...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in late 2019, brought immense disruption to individuals and societies worldwide, including children and adolescents. Alongside its immediate physical health impacts, ...

COVID-19, a new form of coronavirus, is dominating the news. To date, more than 640,000 people have been infected by the respiratory disease, which originated in China, and more than 29,000 people ...

Results of a large study of more than 3 million people show that approximately one third of young adults aged 18-39 experienced anxiety and depression with much lower rates of these disorders in those ...

Jacqueline Sperling, PhD, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and co-program director of the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program, led a study ...

Despite a global pandemic that caused the deaths of millions of people and drastically altered our way of life, we still haven’t mastered the art of recognizing grief when it shows up. Four years ago, ...