Screening for perinatal depression is a clinical approach to identifying women in need of mental health diagnoses, referral, and treatment. Many states mandate screening for perinatal depression, but ...

People with depression have higher body temperatures, suggesting there could be a mental health benefit to lowering the temperatures of those with the disorder, a new UC San Francisco-led study found.

Despite decades of research, scientists struggle to understand the mental health implications of DNA. Researchers were able ...

Co-authored by Eugene Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., and Charles Zorumski, M.D. Children as young as 3 years old can experience clinically serious depression, which can increase the risk for significant ...

Over 30 million Americans take antidepressants. Researchers found four specific types with ties to cognition loss later in ...

Rates of diagnosis for depression fell by 27.7% after the COVID-19 pandemic, compared with pre-pandemic rates, according to ...

Depression and anxiety affect millions of people worldwide. While treatments such as medication and psychotherapy (sometimes called talk therapy) can be very effective, they’re not always an option.

There’s little debate about the fact that a plant-based diet is the healthiest around, both in terms of physical health and brain health. But a new study suggests that a vegetarian diet may, ...

We don’t experience depression uniformly, and a new study finds that some symptoms may be more strongly linked with developing dementia later in life.