For over two decades, the minority stress model has guided research on the health of
sexually-diverse individuals (those who are not exclusively heterosexual) and gender …

Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is arguably the most common psychiatric disorder to
arise after exposure to a traumatic event. Since its formal introduction in the DSM‐III in 1980 …

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) presents a major public health problem for which
currently available treatments are modestly effective. We report the findings of a randomized …

Most theories and hypotheses in psychology are verbal in nature, yet their evaluation
overwhelmingly relies on inferential statistical procedures. The validity of the move from …

Mounting evidence suggests safety and efficacy of psychedelic compounds as potential
novel therapeutics in psychiatry. Ketamine has been approved by the Food and Drug …

Previous attempts to identify a unified theory of brain serotonin function have largely failed to
achieve consensus. In this present synthesis, we integrate previous perspectives with new …

Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal
mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly controlled experiments are …

Clinical studies indicate that cannabidiol (CBD), the primary nonaddictive component of
cannabis that interacts with the serotonin (5-HT) 1A receptor, may possess analgesic and …

Depression is a polygenic and highly complex psychiatric disorder that remains a major
burden on society. Antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) …

Depression is a heterogeneous and etiologically complex psychiatric syndrome, not a
unitary disease entity, encompassing a broad spectrum of psychopathology arising from …