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, ...

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 ...

New research suggests a bidirectional relationship exists between how much time children spend sitting and their mental health, creating a cycle where inactivity feeds feelings of depression and vice ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is significantly associated with increased risk of depressive disorder (DD) and may also correlate with suicide risk among individuals with DD, ...

Wearable trackers could even detect the probability of a relapse weeks or months before it occurs. Up to around 60% of people ...

Patients with depressive symptoms and asthma had elevated levels of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor in association ...

“That’s wonderful,” says Sandy. “But…I think your wearable must be broken. The data from it look very irregular for your sleep these past 2 weeks.” “Oh,” says Joe, “it’s not broken. Actually, now that ...