Developmental delay is viewed clinically as a temporary state where children are slower to develop than expected. It is most often used for children under five.
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Humans have attempted to understand and treat mental illness for centuries – from ancient Greek medicine, Middle Ages exorcisms and the rise of asylums, to modern medical breakthroughs.
Why was Susanna Kaysen really hospitalised? Her memoir Girl, Interrupted turns 30 this year. It investigates whether she was ‘mad’, or medicalised for a ‘chaotic’ life that defied gender norms.
After an outcry on social media over its requirement that writers provide a medical diagnosis, Black Inc. has put on hold a planned anthology: Growing up Neurodivergent in Australia.
A lucid, demanding book on the psychology and neurobiology of trauma has become a publishing phenomenon. It resonates, writes Nick Haslam, with an age in which people are seeing trauma everywhere.
It’s been 25 years since autism was redefined and the surge in diagnoses and research began. But while we’ve come along way in our understanding of the spectrum, advances in drug therapies has lagged.
It seems like an easy question, until you take a closer look. Then things get messy.
One in ten cannabis users are dependent on the drug, according to some estimates.
Mental health trauma has always been a part of war. Treatments have come a long way over the last century, but we still don’t understand why the responses change for different people and times.
Have you ever checked your phone thinking you had felt it vibrate or heard it ring, only to see that no one tried to reach you? One researcher decided to study this phenomenon.
Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Mark Butler told Q&A that eating disorders “are the mental illness type which has the highest mortality rate”. We check the research.
Adult separation anxiety is a relatively new concept. There are, as yet, no published evidence-based treatments for the condition.
Autism has gone from a rare disorder to one that affects one in 68 children in a few decades.
Melancholia has a strong genetic contribution, so it’s largely biologically underpinned rather than caused by social factors (stressors) or psychological factors, such as personality style.
School refusal is a serious difficulty for many students, but it is often ignored in policies for increasing school attendance.
We all worry about our health from time to time, at least to some degree, but some people worry excessively about catastrophic consequences of seemingly benign symptoms. They’re known as hypochondriacs…
In the latest instalment of our series Biology and Blame Micol Seigel poses some important questions about the assumptions behind the legal use of fMRI. Of the current uses of psychiatry in legal settings…
Sociology influences medicine more than we like to admit. One only needs to look at the history of psychiatric disorders – a term used broadly here to incorporate developmental disorders – to see how “normal…
We’ve all felt sad, anxious or down at one time or another, but where does the normal experience of emotion end and the clinical picture of a mood or anxiety disorder begin? Psychiatry has two widely used…
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has copped the predicted criticisms since its release on the weekend. Most centre on the idea that more of us will…
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Director, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Timothy W. Jones is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
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Professor of Inclusion and Educational Psychology, University of Adelaide
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Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Director, Krongold Clinic (Research), Monash University
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Professor of Clinical Psychology & Director, Brain & Psychological Sciences Research Centre, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor & Director of Traumatic Stress Clinic, UNSW Sydney
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PhD Candidate and Sessional Academic in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Bond University
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Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
