China has the largest population of patients with dementia in the world, imposing a heavy
burden on the public and health care systems. More than 100 epidemiological studies on …

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety disorders are together responsible for 8% of years
lived with disability globally. Contrary to widely held preconceptions, these are not diseases …

Summary Background In China, depressive disorders have been estimated to be the second
leading cause of years lived with disability. However, nationally representative …

Background To date, no national‐scale psychiatric epidemiological survey for children and
adolescents has been conducted in China. In order to inform government officials and …

Trillions of microbes have evolved with and continue to live on and within human beings. A
variety of environmental factors can affect intestinal microbial imbalance, which has a close …

Background: Recognizing the need for good quality, scientific and reliable information for
strengthening mental health policies and programmes, the National Mental Health Survey …

Background This Commission addresses several priority areas for psychiatry over the next
decade, and into the 21st century. These represent challenges and opportunities for the …

China has approximately 10 million people with epilepsy. There is a vast epilepsy treatment
gap in China, mainly driven by deficiencies in health-care delivery and social discrimination …

Importance Depression is associated with increased disease burden worldwide and with
higher risk of mortality in Western populations. Objective To investigate whether depression …

Antidepressant medications are known to modulate the central nervous system, and gut
microbiota can play a role in depression via microbiota–gut–brain axis. But the impact of …