For decades, treating major depression has involved a frustrating cycle of trial and error, with patients cycling through ...

In a major shift for how mental health conditions might be treated, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

Swedish neurotech startup Flow Neuroscience has secured FDA approval for the first brain stimulation device for home use in ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Depression doesn’t mean you’re always feeling low. Sure, most times it’s hard to crawl out of bed or get motivated. Once in a while, however, you feel a spark of your old self—only to get sucked back ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. For many years, psychological research regarding the depressed brain often ...

New research links inflammation to mental health symptoms. Personalized care using brain and immune data could improve ...

A recent study in Nature used precision functional mapping to understand better, at the brain level, the neurobiological mechanisms behind distinct depressive symptoms and mood changes over time.

If you’re interested in seeking ketamine treatment for depression, you probably have a few questions about how it all works.

American Psychological Association (APA) defines depression as a serious mental health condition that is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, or irritability accompanied by ...

When Louise was pregnant with her second daughter, she suffered from extreme sickness and struggled to get through each day.