Illustration of the vagus nerve. (Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Depression affects more than 300 ...

B. J. Owens offers an honest and compassionate look at living with depression while encouraging readers to separate who ...

Depression can be debilitating. Some depressed people lose interest in the things they love. Others can’t get out of bed. Many self harm or take their own lives. This month is Suicide Prevention Month ...

Australia has a mental health crisis. The Productivity Commission has found mental health issues cost Australia up to A$200 ...

It’s hard to understand if you’ve never been there. I recently posted a question on my Facebook page asking people who’d suffered from depression to describe what it felt like so that those who’d ...

Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. Stress and depression can look and ...

Medical professionals agree with Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-New Jersey) that depression is hard to grapple with, and that ...

Researchers say a single intravenous ketamine infusion can rapidly relieve severe depression and suicidal thoughts when traditional antidepressants fail.

Grief is a response to loss. A person may feel intense and overwhelming sadness when someone close to them dies. Sometimes, this sadness may worsen into complicated grief or become depression. A ...

Psychiatry has a naming problem. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder are assumed to be cousins but, in fact, are barely related. The “schizo” in schizophrenia ...