Depression disrupts the body's stress systems, causing physical health risks like heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, and reducing life expectancy by 7-10 years.

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation offers rapid depression relief for patients unresponsive to conventional ...

Depression and anxiety rank among the top global health challenges. Since 1990, these disorders have surged, placing them in ...

A Swedish startup has developed a high-tech headset that fights depression. Here's how it works.

Until recently, clinical depression treatments have fallen into just two categories: psychotherapy and antidepressant medications. But this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the ...

Emerging research suggests that chronic inflammation, rather than neurotransmitter deficiencies alone, may be a major factor ...

Bright light therapy, a standard treatment for seasonal depression, may also help people who experience depression year-round ...

Shields’s confession of postpartum depression reached an enormous audience, mainly because actor Tom Cruise publicly ...

It could be a game-changer for the more than one-third of people with depression who do not respond to standard treatments such as antidepressants or psychotherapy. How deep brain stimulation is ...

This, combined with data on psychiatric treatment outcome mediators, suggests that earlier intervention with ketamine could improve outcomes for patients suffering from refractory depression. The past ...

A new study highlights the link between inflammation and depression, challenging traditional neurotransmitter-focused theories. An examination of decades of research suggests that immune system ...