Depression News

Former NRL greats: Sean Timmins and Josh Perry are touring the Pilbara for the State of Mind campaign and to spread the gospel of rugby league.

Latino USA's senior producer, A.C. Valdez, joins us to discuss your responses to our recent episode on depression, suicide, and alcoholism.

FOR the first time researchers have been able to pinpoint exactly when breast cancer patients lose their taste during chemotherapy and, more importantly, when they will get it back.

We Americans work hard. Weekends are more like workends. We sleep with our smartphones.

Although prior studies have shown that people with symptoms of depression are more likely to develop dementia, the relationship has remained obscure.

Women over the age of 65 face numerous barriers to good health: an increased risk for obesity, greater struggles against poverty and higher rates of asthma with worse health outcomes.

Researchers in Chicago found patients who had more severe symptoms of depression experienced a more rapid decline in their thinking and memory skills.

Twenty years ago Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation ushered in a wave of confessional literature.

The neurocognitive function of patients with major depression who fall into the "soft" bipolar spectrum resembles that of patients with bipolar II disorder rather than those with unipolar depression, say researchers.

Depression Contributes To Dementia In Older Adults: Study New research suggests treating depression early could actually lessen the chances of getting dementia later in life.

Like antidepressant medications, however, they typically have a delayed onset. For example, a patient may receive several weeks of regular ECT treatments before a full response is achieved .

The tragic suicide of a 13-year-old Coloma girl has helped open up a dialogue about bullying in area schools.

I've found that it's much easier for women to say, "I'm depressed," than it is for men.

Kellyville resident Geoff Bishop will join 70 other motorbike riders to travel around Australia to help raise awareness of depression and suicide prevention.

Depression can strike at any age, but women are at a higher risk for experiencing depression, especially after age 40. Statistically, women are twice as likely to develop clinical depression as men, with one in four women suffering a depressive episode at some point in their lives.

Depression , anxiety, and symptoms of ADHD are the last thing that most patients thing they are going to face after a surgical procedure, especially those involving general anesthesia, but a surprising number of people face exactly that.

Aim of the event is to help raise awareness of the signs, symptoms of depression, how to help yourself and others that may be affected.

Among older adults with dementia, those who are also depressed tend to have more rapid cognitive decline, according to a new study.

A new study gives insight into the relationship between depression and dementia.

Many doctors, observing how their depressed patients appear to be more likely to develop dementia, have wondered: Which comes first, the depression or the dementia? Do both problems share the same cause? Now, a new study from Rush University Medical Center shows depression to be independent of dementia-related brain changes.