World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Howard et al's paper1 highlights the complex interplay between social, cultural, physiological and hormonal factors that influence women's mental health in the context of reproductive psychiatry. Reproductive conditions are not just bodily …

Sex and gender differences in the epidemiology of mental disorders are well documented. Less well understood are the drivers of these differences. Reproductive health represents one of the gendered determinants of mental health that may aff…

Excessive health anxiety - which is anxiety about one's health that is disproportionate to the person's medical status - is a common and often debilitating problem. Little is known about its etiology. The present study investigated the role…