Depression News

Depression is a disease which goes beyond the sufferer to adversely affect families and communities.

As the weather gets colder and the daylight hours decrease, many people may experience symptoms of depression.

Treating depression using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors is often a trial-and-error process, but new research appearing in the journal Translational Psychiatry lays the foundation for a new genetic test that could allow doctors to provide patients with a personalized treatment program.

Kimberly Loveday of Batavia and her daughter, Brooklyn Belair, 16, wrote a book together, "Brooklyn's Battle: A Daughter's War with Anxiety and Depression."

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According to an announcement from Eli Lilly, three randomized placebo-controlled phase III studies of their investigational depression drug edivoxetine did not meet the primary objective of superior efficacy compared with placebo after 8 weeks of treatment in patients with major depressive disorder .

"I've been sick since I was about 15 and I'm 37 now, so it's been a long road." Larisa Womack has spent her entire adult life suffering in a sea depression; in a bubble she says while the world turns around you.

To understand a concussion's full effect on the brain, it is necessary to determine immediate consequences in addition to complications that could manifest a couple of years down the line.

Allie Brosh's artistic style on her popular illustrated blog, Hyperbole and a Half , is, as she described it, purposefully crude.

A growing body of evidence shows that many lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people are threatened with violence because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or the way they express their sexuality.

Questioned: David Hall, who sprayed an apprentice with flammable liquid while he was welding, at the court on Monday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new study by a movement disorder neurologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center found that depression improved among patients with Parkinson's disease who participated in a long-term group exercise program.

In a series of heartfelt videos compiled online by healthtalkonline.org alongside research conducted by the University of Nottingham and Oxford University, 30 individuals share that antidepressant medications are not a 'quick fix.'

"Depression" is an umbrella term that covers many different clinical conditions.

In a span of just over a week this fall, four Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan took their own lives.

IN a searingly honest piece, MP for Barrow and Furness, John Woodcock, speaks about his battle with depression in the hope it will help tackle the stigma attached to mental health issues HONEST Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock wants to help other sufferers by being honest about his battle with depression When I fell off my attic ladder last year ... (more)

She has been on Prozac for eight months, and it is not helping. She is moderately cognitively disabled, and her doctor says the medication will not be very effective for her because she lacks the rationality to work through this crisis.

There are more than 19 million adults in the United States living with depression and many more people could be suffering but are unaware that what they are feeling is depression, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

All the months that Teresa McConnell went without treatment for depression, she basically was homebound.

This study pokes a pointed stick into lots of questions about medicine, science, and scholarship.