Most newer antidepressants probably reduce depression symptoms better than a placebo (a 'dummy' treatment that does not contain any medicine but looks identical to the medicine being tested). However, ...

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Persistent sadness, fatigue, changes in sleep and appetite, or loss of interest are common symptoms in mothers suffering from perinatal depression. How do these symptoms evolve? A pioneering study ...

Features to Look for in Depression Stocks Not every stock is equally as equipped to handle a depression or recession. By examining the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929, we can identify ...

Discover 4 medical conditions that cause depression-like symptoms including fatigue, mood swings, and hopelessness that often go undiagnosed.

A single dose of psilocybin provides long-term reductions in anxiety and depression in cancer patients, a new study shows. Cancer patients can experience depression so severe that it affects their ...

Your Phone's Selfie Camera Can Now Detect Depression. Here's How Emobot, a medical device app, uses AI-powered facial recognition to track users' emotions and monitor mental health.

The Great Depression, the 20th century's worst economic disaster, began with the 1929 stock market crash. It spread globally, causing widespread unemployment, bank failures, and poverty.

Melancholic depression, also called melancholia, is a serious type of depression. Researchers think this type of depression mainly affects your central nervous system. About 25%-30% of people ...

More information: Kayla Hannon et al, Parsing clinical and neurobiological sources of heterogeneity in depression, Biological Psychiatry (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.04.025 ...

Depression is classified as a mood disorder in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5)”. In older versions of the DSM, OCD was classified as an anxiety ...

Mark Duplass confessed that dealing with his depression and anxiety can be a grind. “It’s a really complicated system of making sure you get enough sleep, making sure you get exercise every ...