The International Classification of Diseases, or ICD, is a classification system for all physical and mental diseases produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). It’s used for diagnosis, research ...

Despite oft-heard complaints, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) continues to be the primary diagnostic manual used by mental health professionals. However, in the last ...

Revised ICD-10-CM codes for neurocognitive disorders are now in effect, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has announced The coding changes for major and mild neurocognitive disorders ...

Both the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Edition (ICD-10) ...

The World Health Organization removed “transsexualism” from the International Classification of Diseases, a diagnostic manual of illnesses used by most countries around the world. The change was ...

Transgender health issues will no longer be classified as mental and behavioural disorders under big changes to the World Health Organization's global manual of diagnoses. The newly-approved version ...

University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Traditional psychiatry uses the approaches of medicine to try to understand mental health problems and guide ...