Mental health advocates have made great strides in removing the stigma around mental illness and building awareness around the signs and symptoms of major mental health disorders and effective, ...

The word depressive comes from depress, stemming from the Latin depressare, meaning to “press down.” For example, we can press down on, or depress, a lever. Whenever you press a key or drive and step ...

Mental health professionals use the DSM to standardize the diagnosis and treatment processes for mental health conditions, including types of depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...

While these types of depression are similar, they may have different causes and require different treatments. Depression is one of the most common mental health conditions, affecting tens of millions ...

An elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is significantly associated with increased risk of depressive disorder (DD) ...

Approximately 20 percent of adolescents had symptoms of major depressive disorder in 2021 — the first full calendar year of the pandemic — but less than half who needed treatment received it, ...

In a recent article published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers investigate the clinical relevance of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) in the underlying neuropathology ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric ...

Radial reports that teen depression is prevalent yet under-treated. Effective options include therapy, antidepressants, and ...