Depression News

Scientists have traced vulnerability to depression-like behaviors in mice to out-of-balance electrical activity inside neurons of the brain's reward circuit and experimentally reversed it - but there's a twist.

What makes us who we are: nature or nurture? Those two forces -- genetics and experience -- work together in complex ways, forging our personalities, our decision-making processes, our tendencies for depression or resilience.

Peaches Geldof planned to move Downunder to replace troubled Kiwi TV presenter Charlotte Dawson on Australia's Next Top Model.

APRIL 19: A young Villa fan and his dad read the match day programme before the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Southampton at Villa Park on April 19, 2014 in Birmingham, England.

Older people who are apathetic, but not depressed, may have smaller brain volumes than those without apathy, according to a new study.

One in five people will have depression at some point in their lives while more than 120,000 Derbyshire adults are depressed - representing 12 per cent of the county's population.

Survivors of a ferry that sank off South Korea's south coast earlier this week have shown serious symptoms of depression and anxiety, a hospital chief said Saturday.

A new study finds that children, especially boys, of mothers who took antidepressants during pregnancy are at a greater risk for autism.

Between student debt , roommate drama , and all those finals , college comes with more than its fair share of stress .

For many years, mental health professionals viewed depression as primarily a women's disease.

Americans over the age of 65 dealing with late-life depression not only run the risk of suicide but also certain health complications and cognitive decline.

In the beginning, women may feel as though they are having more severe or even constant PMS.

From left to right, Greater Lowell Technical High School juniors Kaleigh Wandell, 17, and Gabriela Cruz-Gonzalez, 16, stand with Superintendent of Schools Roger Bourgeois after receiving a check for $5,000 from Lowell General Hospital for the national organization To Write Love on Her Arms.

Pastor Bill and his wife Lisa had a growing church and a good marriage, but something was wrong.

WARONMEN: Young Dads Are at Risk for Postpartum Depression. "A study published in the journal Pediatrics finds that men who become fathers around age 25 see a 68 percent increase of depression symptoms over the first five years of being dads-if they live at the same home as their children."

At Nassau Community College in Garden City on April 16, 2014, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announces her support for legislation requiring mental health professionals to be on military panels that handle appeals from veterans seeking to clear their records of disciplinary discharges.

Researchers produced antidepressant-like behavioral effects by reversing out-of-balance electrical activity in reward circuit neurons of susceptible mice exposed to social stress.

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New research shows SSRI use during pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, may elevate the risk of autism spectrum disorders.

In her short life, she helped lead thousands of young girls to a sense of self-worth.