Women experience depression at nearly twice the rate of men, and their symptoms often reflect unique biological and social ...

Recognizing how persistent depressive disorder manifests and plays out in the lives of individuals is the first step in ...

Because of its complexity, a full understanding of depression has been elusive. There is mounting evidence that depression may actually be a necessary defense strategy of the body, a kind of ...

In the sixth episode of The Deep End, listen to what’s next for Jon Nelson and for deep brain stimulation research for depression.

Depression stalls careers, strains relationships, and sometimes ends lives. Help break the silence and lift the stigma around this devastating and common disorder. The following resources offer ...

Even with bipolar 1, they found, the depression-to-mania ratio is 3:1. Depression, in the clinical and medical understanding, refers to a major depressive episode as defined by the Diagnostic and ...

Like, that sucks you have that, right? For some reason, people need to understand what depression is for them to get it and for them to care about it. But I had a huge insight after surgery.

Dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT) is a short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy that has been shown to effectively reduce depressive symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). In DIT, ...

A groundbreaking study led by Tulsa’s Laureate Institute for Brain Research has identified genetic and cognitive risk factors linked to treatment-resistant depression, offering new hope for more ...

New study helps explain the mechanisms by which nitrous oxide affects the brain, potentially offering insights that could help relieve treatment-resistant depression.

Despite the fact that more than 300 million people around the world live with depression, there’s a persistent lack of understanding about what it’s actually like to live with the mental ...

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and ...