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Iceland is a registry-rich country with a small enough population that genuinely nationwide health data is feasible — not the survey-based approximations that anchor most psychiatric epidemi…
Read articlePatients with schizophrenia have substantially elevated dementia risk compared to the general population — roughly 2-3 times the age-adjusted rate — but the specific drivers within the schiz…
Read articleChildren with intellectual disability are 3–4x more likely to have a comorbid psychiatric disorder than peers without ID. A 2026 nationwide Korean study by Joo and colleagues tracks how thos…
Read articleThe Netherlands has practiced euthanasia for mental suffering since the early 2000s, and the procedure has expanded rapidly among young people. Between 2020 and 2024, euthanasia procedures f…
Read articlePsychedelic-assisted therapy has been one of the most-covered mental-health stories of the past decade. A 2026 quantitative analysis by Evers and colleagues maps how media enthusiasm grew, p…
Read articleStudies of adolescent cannabis effects on cognition have been limited by self-report and confounding. A 2026 longitudinal study by Wade and colleagues uses the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Dev…
Read articleLisdexamfetamine remains the only FDA-approved medication for binge-eating disorder — a serious condition affecting roughly 1.2% of adults. A 2026 human laboratory study by McKee and colleag…
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