Researchers are testing whether drugs designed to quiet the immune system can lift severe depression that resists ...

Live Science spoke with the scientists behind an upcoming clinical trial testing an immune therapy for depression.

A new brain-imaging study has revealed how ketamine produces its fast antidepressant effects in people with treatment-resistant depression. Researchers tracked changes in a critical brain receptor ...

Exercise, Prozac and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) may ultimately relieve depression in the same way. That’s what the latest research, conducted on mice, suggests, and the scientists are encouraged ...

Data are limited, however. In mice, ingesting exercise mimetics appeared to improve depressive-like behaviors, and the ...

Prof. Dr. Guido van Wingen discusses the potential of, and barriers to, the use of AI in transforming the treatment of depression ...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, and approximately 30% of patients develop treatment-resistant depression (TRD), a condition that does not respond ...

Teens with depression have to navigate the challenges of living with a mood disorder, along with the usual academic and social pressures of high school. A depression diagnosis may be unsettling, but ...

For the many patients with depression who haven't found relief through medication, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) - ...

The hallucinogenic compound psilocybin is undergoing a renaissance-not as a recreational drug but as a potential treatment for mental health conditions. We follow the journey of one participant of a ...

Although many therapies and medications now exist for major depression, roughly one in three diagnosed patients still suffer from treatment-resistant depression—a form of the disorder that does not ...