Several psychiatrists are considering changing guidelines that define depression, due to findings from a new study. Michele Norris talks with Dr. Michael First of Columbia University about expanding ...

In a recent article published in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated whether meaning in life (MIL) and psychological resilience (PR) showed a chain mediating effect in the association between ...

Most people think of depression as a mental disorder, that is, a biological illness of the brain. Here I argue that the concept of depression as a mental disorder has been unhelpfully overextended to ...

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Leo Tolstoy. Poets and philosophers have long mused about the universal and idiosyncratic signature of our emotions. The ...

Researchers from Denmark have uncovered strong evidence that depression often appears years before Parkinson’s disease and ...

At Stanford, a treatment that aims magnetic pulses at the brain is showing results for people with treatment-resistant depression. It’s called SAINT, and here’s how it works.

This doesn't mean that everyone with depression will wind up with a brain disease like Parkinson's or dementia, researchers ...

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 ...