Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a ...

Depression Awareness Month (October) began in the 1990s to increase public recognition of one of the most common mental health disorders. Nearly four decades have passed, and we still have a lot to ...

Editor's Note: An excerpt of this story ran in WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Turns out, an orange a day might do ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced depression symptoms. However, only Yueju Pill increased a brain-supporting ...

Symptoms of depression fluctuate over time, but many brain imaging studies of the condition only study one point in time. That’s made it hard to connect networks of brain activity to various symptoms ...

Researchers have identified a brain mechanism that may determine why chronic pain leads to depression in some individuals but ...

Animal models of human disease have extremely mixed results, and all too often they do not work well and accomplish their goals of helping humans. 1 One such procedure, the forced swim test, is a ...