Mental health advocates have made great strides in removing the stigma around mental illness and building awareness around the signs and symptoms of major mental health disorders and effective, ...

The word depressive comes from depress, stemming from the Latin depressare, meaning to “press down.” For example, we can press down on, or depress, a lever. Whenever you press a key or drive and step ...

Mental health professionals use the DSM to standardize the diagnosis and treatment processes for mental health conditions, including types of depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...

Approximately 20 percent of adolescents had symptoms of major depressive disorder in 2021 — the first full calendar year of the pandemic — but less than half who needed treatment received it, ...

Persistent depressive disorder is underdiagnosed, and many who suffer from it have never heard of it. By Christina Caron By the time Amanda Stern was in her mid-40s, she no longer suffered from ...

An elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is significantly associated with increased risk of depressive disorder (DD) ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric ...

In a recent article published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers investigate the clinical relevance of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) in the underlying neuropathology ...