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Cognitive behavioral therapy in addition to medication improves the long-term success of treatment for children and adolescents suffering from depression, a new UT Southwestern Medical Center study…

Engineers and neuroscientists at Duke University have developed a method to measure the response of an individual neuron to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the brain.

Depression is common in cancer, up to half of all patients facing the disease experience depressive symptoms, ranging from mild to severe.

According to the World Health Organization, such mood disorders as depression affect some 10% of the world’s population and are associated with a heavy burden of disease.

Researchers have found that U.S. Food and Drug Administration warnings about a potential danger for young people taking antidepressants may have backfired, causing an increase in suicide attempts by…

A study examining the effects of the 2008 recession finds that Americans who lost their jobs suffered more with depression than their European counterparts.

Ketamine could prevent suicide and lift mood in the severely depressed, according to new research that shows the effect is almost instantaneous and seems to work on most patients.

Levels of a small molecule found only in humans and in other primates are lower in the brains of depressed individuals, according to researchers at McGill University and the Douglas Institute.

Why some youth cultures are more prone to self-harm and attempted suicides than others is investigated in a new study by researchers from the UK and Germany.

Unprecedented research conducted by a group of neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to train brain patterns associated with empathic feelings – more specifically…