A recent clinical trial suggests that treating the immune system with an anti-inflammatory drug could relieve symptoms in ...

The duration for which one remains depressed may impact how severely the mental disorder makes changes in the brain, ...

The duration of depression may influence the extent to which brain functioning is affected, as well as the treatment options ...

Editor’s note: Season 8 of the podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets back to basics with an in-depth examination of the brain in different states. Each episode will focus on one of those ...

Researchers have developed a soft contact lens embedded with electrical stimulation electrodes that, in a mouse model of ...

It’s hard to understand if you’ve never been there. I recently posted a question on my Facebook page asking people who’d suffered from depression to describe what it felt like so that those who’d ...

A pair of smart glasses managed to reduce symptoms of depression by sending signals to the brain through the eye.

Psychiatry has a naming problem. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder are assumed to be cousins but, in fact, are barely related. The “schizo” in schizophrenia ...

An insightful new technology has been developed for treating depression. While millions of adults in the US use ...

Depression does not just limit how we feel and what we do. It steals who we are. Millions of people suffer from depression and experience a range of debilitating symptoms. Unfortunately, many people ...

A new study suggests that Instagram users who favor grays, blues and few faces in their photos are more likely to be depressed. Researchers analyzed more than 40,000 Instagram photos and found that ...