Depression affects 280 million people worldwide. The mental illness has been proven to lead to changes in eating behavior. Researchers have discovered that although patients with depression generally ...

A wearable lens used the retina to reach mood circuits deep in the brain and reverse depression-like changes in mice.

Depression in older adults may sometimes signal the early stages of Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia. Researchers found that depression often appears years before diagnosis and remains ...

Science and Practice suggests that while antidepressants and short-term psychodynamic therapy both help alleviate depression, ...

Earlier this week, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a human trial for a blueberry-sized brain ...

People with depression have a distinguishing feature in their brains: They have fewer astrocytes, a type of star-shaped brain cell, compared with the brains of people without mental health disorders, ...

Psilocybin, the hallucinogenic compound found in "magic mushrooms," could treat depression by creating a hyper-connected brain. By boosting connectivity between different areas of the brain, the ...

In recent years, the world has faced an onslaught of increasingly apocalyptic extreme weather events, which have become more frequent due to the climate crisis. Naturally, we might expect these ...

Most clergy surveyed said they counsel congregation members to seek medical help for depression A new Duke University study appears to ease concerns that clergy would steer congregants suffering from ...

Women exposed to higher levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) or inhalable particulate matter (PM 10) during the second trimester of pregnancy face an almost fourfold increased risk of postpartum ...