SAD is a clinical form of depression that follows a seasonal pattern. Most people experience its onset in late autumn or ...

New research shows that depression beginning before age 25 has a much stronger hereditary component than depression that ...

Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, ...

Three medical experts review the evidence around how antidepressants may affect the gut microbiome, and what this could mean ...

We all know the feeling - as the days get shorter and the nights get longer, our moods tend to get a little bit gloomier. But ...

Creatine supplementation may modestly reduce depressive symptoms, but the effect is small, uncertain, and likely influenced ...

Framing depression as a sign of spiritual weakness, or insufficient faith, can lead to intense shame. Studies have shown that when religious practices are associated with feelings of guilt, fear, or ...

Men suffer depression frequently, but often differently than women. Their symptoms are different and easily justified as ...

One of the most commonly prescribed antidepressants, sertraline, may begin to relieve some key symptoms of depression and ...

Levels of mental ill health and associated outcomes (e.g. suicide, drug dependence) have been shown to vary according to environment and neighbourhood ...

A new medication for treatment-resistant depression may help a subset of people who carry a specific genetic marker.

A reanalysis of the PANDA trial suggests sertraline eases low mood and anxiety within 2 weeks, effects that the original ...