Scientists have discovered how stress can lead to serious mental health problems. To better understand the function of type I ...

Depression, one of the most prevalent mental health disorders worldwide, is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, ...

The core experiences of depression — changes in energy, activity, thinking, and mood — have been described for more than 10,000 years. The word “depression” has been used for about 350 years. Given ...

Does depression have some hidden trigger? Although depression most often arises in response to some kind of defeat, depression can seem to arise out of the blue, for no obvious reason. It may even ...

Since the 1960s, researchers have postulated that major depression stems from disruptions in the serotonin neurotransmitter system, but the evidence for that idea, though plentiful, was indirect. In ...

Patients with type 2 diabetes often have comorbid major depressive disorder, but the underlying neurobiological substrates are still poorly understood. The goal of this study was, therefore, to ...

Bill Valvo could sense that something was going very wrong with his health. He had worked for a software-development company in Fairfax, Va., for 10 years following a 22-year hitch with the Air Force, ...

Depression is characterized by a persistent low mood that can affect quality of life. If symptoms usually only occur in the winter months, it may be seasonal affective disorder (SAD), or major ...

Depression is a common emotional state that many people have experienced at some point in their life. For some, depression is a diagnosis and the one thing that they can't seem to shake despite trying ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health, parenting, and general health and ...

Although depression most often arises in response to some kind of defeat, depression can seem to arise out of the blue, for no obvious reason. It may even arise when life appears to be going extremely ...

Postpartum depression (PPD), sometimes called perinatal depression, is a type of severe depression that happens to some ...