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Depression has long been known to affect memory, but it has been unclear how. Now, researchers say that one reason for this is that depression impairs the process of “pattern separation” – the ability to differentiate things that are similar…

Patients who suffer from depression may benefit more from acupuncture or counseling alongside their usual care, compared with usual care alone. This is according to a study published in the journal PLOS Medicine…

By combining the experience of self-reported positive and negative emotions among 1,400 US-residents, researchers created four affective profiles which they then used to discern differences in happiness, depression, life satisfaction and happiness-inc…

Being in the minority in an ethnically diverse crowd is distressing, regardless of your ethnicity, unless you have a sense of purpose in life, reports a Cornell University developmental psychologist. Anthony Burrow, assistant professor of human develo…

For patients with recurrent major depressive disorder that have undergone acute phase cognitive therapy (CT), continuation phase CT (C-CT) does not appear to have greater preventive effects on relapse compared with patients taking fluoxetine (an antide…

A new drug target to treat depression and other mood disorders may lie in a group of GABA neurons (gamma-aminobutyric acid – the neurotransmitters which inhibit other cells) shown to contribute to symptoms like social withdrawal and increased anxiety, …

Divorce is associated with an increased risk of future depressive episodes but only for those who already have a history of depression, according to a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological…

A new study shows that grandparents and grandchildren have real, measurable effects on each other’s psychological well-being long into grandchildren’s adulthood. “We found that an emotionally close grandparent-adult grandchild relationship was associat…

A RIKEN research team has discovered an enzyme called Rines that regulates MAO-A, a major brain protein controlling emotion and mood. The enzyme is a potentially promising drug target for treating diseases associated with emotions such as depression…

Wellbutrin (bupropion) is an atypical antidepressant of the aminoketone class of drugs. Wellbutrin is commonly prescribed to treat depression and is currently one of the most prescribed antidepressants in the U.S. It is frequently prescribed over other…