A recent study published in Scientific Reports suggests that white blood cells in people with major depressive disorder show ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating condition that affects more than 246 million people worldwide, yet scientists have struggled to identify consistent brain markers that could improve ...

Psychiatrists have long treated depression using transcranial magnetic stimulation—noninvasive magnetic pulses that stimulate ...

Major depressive disorder affects hundreds of millions worldwide, but a key to understanding its origins may lie in the brain’s immune system. New findings spotlight astrocytes—previously overshadowed ...

A mechanism involving potassium channels in the brain that control brain cell activity could provide a new and fundamentally different way of treating depression symptoms in adults with major ...

Researchers led by Dr. Roberto Goya-Maldonado at the University Medical Center Göttingen have identified a rapid physiological marker that predicts which patients with major depression will respond to ...

Deep brain stimulation—implants in the brain that act as a kind of "pacemaker"—has led to clinical improvements in half of the participants with treatment-resistant severe depression in an open-label ...

Recent clinical research in nutritional psychiatry demonstrates that your daily menu directly dictates mental well-being, ...

A wearable lens used the retina to reach mood circuits deep in the brain and reverse depression-like changes in mice.

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