Can a chatbot make someone lose touch with reality? That’s the question I posed to psychiatrist John Luo of the University of California, Irvine, on a recent episode of my podcast "Relating to AI," ...

Psychiatrists are seeing a new kind of patient in the waiting room, people who arrive clutching chat logs instead of diaries and insisting that an artificial companion is sending them secret messages.

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders.

People experiencing delusions during an episode of psychosis may be ‘living out’ a deeply held emotion, according to new research that provides a ‘radically different perspective’ on one of ...

A ChatGPT user recently became convinced that he was on the verge of introducing a novel mathematical formula to the world, courtesy of his exchanges with the artificial intelligence, according to the ...

Isolation is a profound and often misunderstood aspect of schizophrenia, a complex mental health condition that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Schizophrenia can be a disorienting and ...

Delusions of grandeur are a symptom of mental health conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. People with this ...

Find out more about how psychotic experiences may influence early brain ageing and what this means for future mental health.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a rapidly rising concern that ...

The term “delusion” refers to a strong, consuming belief in something that is untrue. Religious delusions involve beliefs concerning religious ideologies or figures. Religious delusions differ from ...