Major depression is one of the most common mental health conditions in the world. In the United States alone, about one in ...

A growing body of preclinical research is converging on a provocative idea: that the mental health benefits of physical exercise might one day be delivered in pill form. Scientists have identified ...

People taking DMT tended to experience significant relief from their depression for up to three months, the researchers found ...

Depression in older adults may sometimes signal the early stages of Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia. Researchers found that depression often appears years before diagnosis and remains ...

For most, the idea that you might don a headset to zap your depression away or use electromagnetic pulses to sharpen your cognition seems better placed in a science fiction novel from the 1930s than ...

A single dose of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT), combined with psychotherapy, could significantly improve ...

Depression and seasonal affective disorder (SAD) share similar symptoms, but depression can occur at any time of the year, while SAD follows a recurring seasonal pattern. For a SAD diagnosis, a person ...

Depression is one of the most tragically misunderstood words in the English language. Why? The term has two starkly different meanings, depending upon the context. Among clinicians, depression is ...