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Breathing-based yoga may help treat major depression

Sudarshan Kriya yoga – which focuses on controlled breathing – may be beneficial for patients with major depression who do not respond to antidepressants.

How Can I Help Someone with Depression?

Learn how to tell if someone is depressed and how to talk to them. What are the treatments for depression and what can be done if someone is suicidal?

Depression and Divorce: What’s the Connection?

How can one person’s depression affect their partner and what are the symptoms? Learn how to deal with depression in a relationship and post-divorce.

What Does Depression Feel Like?

Learn about depression for men and women and when a health specialist should be consulted. What are the common symptoms and risk factors of depression?

Increasing the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA in the brains of depressed mice has antidepressant effects

Experimentally increasing the activity of a subclass of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) has antidepressant effects similar to pharmaceutical…

The heterogeneous nature of depression

Depression is generally considered to be a specific and consistent disorder characterised by a fixed set of symptoms and often treated with a combination of psychotherapy and medication.

Studies suggest inflammatory cytokines are associated with depression and psychosis, and that anti-cytokine treatment can reduce depression symptoms

Studies presented at this year’s International Early Psychosis Association (IEPA) meeting in Milan, Italy (20-22 October) suggest that increased levels of inflammatory cytokines are associated with…

Depression’s physical source discovered; potential for new treatments

Understanding of the physical root of depression has been advanced, thanks to research by the University of Warwick, UK, and Fudan University, China.

Health experts report US$246 billion cost of workplace depression across eight countries

New data shows that workplace depression is a major issue across different cultures and economies, with “wide and devastating” consequences for thousands of organisations worldwide.

Antidepressant success affected by environmental conditions

Researchers reveal why antidepressants work in some patients but not others. Their findings show antidepressant effectiveness may depend on environment.