Depression screening tools can objectively detect depression and track symptoms over time. The symptoms of depression vary from person to person, so in some cases, the disorder can be difficult to ...

A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

Imagine the brain as an atlas of possibilities and risks. Genetic variants linked to depression affect its shape, subtly ...

Teenagers in the United States are in crisis. That news got hammered home earlier this year following the release of a nationally representative survey showing that over half of high school girls ...

In a phase 2, double-blind, randomized, controlled trial involving patients with long-standing, moderate-to-severe major depressive disorder, we compared psilocybin with escitalopram, a selective ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that depression has a simple explanation. The same mantra — that the mood disorder comes from a chemical imbalance in the brain — is repeated in doctors’ offices, ...

A new PLoS ONE study provides an updated review on how exercise influences depression in otherwise healthy adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers physical inactivity to be the fourth ...